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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: lacking cordiality; unfriendly; "a standoffish manner" [syn: offish, standoffish]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1860 somewhat cold and reserved • standoffishly adverb • standoffishness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. cold or distant in manner. Derivatives: standoffishly adv. standoffishness n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see stand-offish

Moby Thesaurus

Olympian, above all that, aloof, backward, bashful, blank, chilled, chilly, cold, constrained, cool, detached, discreet, distant, eremitic, exclusive, expressionless, forbidding, frigid, frosty, guarded, haughty, highfalutin, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, insociable, introverted, lordly, misanthropic, modest, offish, pompous, reclusive, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, seclusive, shrinking, snooty, solitary, standoff, subdued, suppressed, unaffable, unapproachable, uncompanionable, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unexpansive, unfriendly, ungenial, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn