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aloof 音標拼音: [əl'uf] a. 疏遠的,冷淡的
ad. 遠離,離開 疏遠的,冷淡的遠離,離開 aloof adv 1: in an aloof manner; " the local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough" adj 1: remote in manner; " stood apart with aloof dignity"; " a distant smile"; " he was upstage with strangers" [ synonym: { aloof}, { distant}, { upstage}] Aloof \ A* loof"\, adv. [ Pref. a- loof, fr. D. loef luff, and so meaning, as a nautical word, to the windward. See { Loof}, { Luff}.] 1. At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away. [ 1913 Webster] Our palace stood aloof from streets. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Without sympathy; unfavorably. [ 1913 Webster] To make the Bible as from the hand of God, and then to look at it aloof and with caution, is the worst of all impieties. -- I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster]
Aloof \ A* loof"\, prep. Away from; clear from. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Rivetus . . . would fain work himself aloof these rocks and quicksands. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster]
Aloof \ A* loof"\, n. ( Zool.) Same as { Alewife}. [ 1913 Webster] 181 Moby Thesaurus words for " aloof": Laodicean, Olympian, above, above all that, abovestairs, airward, alienated, aloft, alone, antisocial, apart, apathetic, arrogant, at a distance, away, backward, bashful, benumbed, blah, blank, blase, bored, broken, careless, casual, chilled, chilly, cold, comatose, companionless, constrained, cool, desensitized, detached, disconnected, discontinuous, discreet, discrete, disdainful, disinterested, distant, distantly, dull, exclusive, expressionless, forbidding, formal, friendless, frigid, frosty, gapped, guarded, haughty, heartless, hebetudinous, heedless, high, high up, homeless, hopeless, icy, impassive, impersonal, in a stupor, in the air, in the clouds, inaccessible, incoherent, inconsistent, incurious, indifferent, insouciant, insular, introverted, isolated, kithless, languid, lethargic, listless, lone, lonely, lonesome, mindless, modest, nonadherent, nonadhesive, nonchalant, noncoherent, noncohesive, numb, numbed, off, offish, on high, on stilts, on the peak, on tiptoe, open, over, overhead, passive, phlegmatic, pluckless, private, proud, regardless, remote, remotely, removed, repressed, reserved, resigned, restrained, reticent, retiring, rootless, seclusive, separate, separated, shrinking, single- handed, skyward, slack, sluggish, solitary, solo, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, standoff, standoffish, stoic, stolid, straight up, stupefied, subdued, supercilious, supine, suppressed, tenuous, tiptoe, to the zenith, torpid, unabetted, unaccompanied, unadhesive, unaffable, unaided, unapproachable, unassisted, unattended, unbending, uncaring, uncoherent, uncohesive, uncompanionable, unconcerned, uncongenial, unconnected, undemonstrative, unescorted, unexpansive, unfriendly, ungenial, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unjoined, unmindful, unresponsive, unseconded, unsociable, unsocial, unsupported, unsympathetic, untenacious, up, upstairs, upward, upwards, withdrawn
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