aloof

  • (s) remote in manner
    • stood apart with aloof dignity
    • a distant smile
    • he was upstage with strangers
    upstage, distant,
  • (r) in an aloof manner
    • the local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough

Synonyms

upstage distant

Words of close approximity

aloe
aloes aloft aloha alone along Alosa aloud
aloofness