Lexic.us

Definition of Aloof

1. Adjective. Remote in manner. "He was upstage with strangers"

2. Adverb. In an aloof manner. "The local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough"

Definition of Aloof

1. n. Same as Alewife.

2. adv. At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.

3. prep. Away from; clear from.

Definition of Aloof

1. Adverb. At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away. ¹

2. Adverb. Without sympathy; unfavorably. ¹

3. Adjective. Reserved and remote; either physically or emotionally distant ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Aloof

1. distant in interest or feeling [adj] : ALOOFLY [adv]

Medical Definition of Aloof

1. Same as Alewife. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aloof

along about along of along the lines along the lines of along with alongest alongshore alongshoreman alongshoremen alongside

alongst aloo aloo chaat aloo gobi aloo gosht aloof (current term) aloofly aloofness aloofnesses aloos

alopecia alopecia areata alopecia cicatrisata alopecia disseminata alopecia leprotica alopecia marginalis alopecia medicamentosa alopecia mucinosa

Literary usage of Aloof

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1884)
"He could place a dependent at the Treasury, and Laud holds ., , he could cite Puritans before the High Commission ; aloof from but the fatal power of ..."

2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... to harm such ne have stood aloof from them. And ля' it is n naval, and not a land alliance that is offered to you, the loss çf it is not tho »amo ..."

3. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1891)
"... of the sage ex- 8(/n,is pounders of the dark riddles and dreams and visions 4, aloof- kept aloof from the body of which ..."

4. Relation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Slavery by Charles King Whipple (1861)
"... the missionaries still acquiesced ; still ranked the buyers and sellers as Christians ; and still held themselves aloof from vindication of the rights ..."

5. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"1983 tence says essentially the same thing no matter which aloof The usual preposition following a/oof isfrom.' interpretation you give a/one. ..."

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