aloof
/uh-LOOF/adjectivecool and distant; not friendly or involved
“The champion stayed aloof from the locker-room politics.”
- Synonyms
- detached, remote, standoffish
- Antonyms
- warm, sociable
- Memory hook
- a-loof: sailing away from the crowd, windward and apart.
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