Usually means: Aloof and distant in manner.
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  1. standoffish: Merriam-Webster
  2. standoffish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. standoffish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. standoffish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. standoffish: Vocabulary.com
  6. standoffish: Wordnik
  7. standoffish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. standoffish: Wiktionary
  9. standoffish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. standoffish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. standoffish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. standoffish: Dictionary.com
  13. standoffish: Rhymezone
  14. standoffish: FreeDictionary.org
  15. standoffish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. standoffish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. standoffish: Legal dictionary

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  1. Standoffish: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Aloof; reserved; unsociable and unfriendly.

Similar:
unapproachable, offish, aloof, unbending, unconcerned, asocial, offstanding, dissocial, antisocial, awkward, more...

Opposite:
sociable, friendly, outgoing, extroverted

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Similar:
unapproachable, offish, aloof, unbending, unconcerned, asocial, offstanding, dissocial, antisocial, awkward, more...

Opposite:
sociable, friendly, outgoing, extroverted

Colors:
    slate gray,     icy blue,     steel blue,     charcoal,     pale lavender, more...



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