Usually means: Distant in feeling or interest.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. aloof: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. aloof: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aloof: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aloof: Collins English Dictionary
  5. aloof: Vocabulary.com
  6. Aloof, aloof: Wordnik
  7. aloof: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. aloof: Wiktionary
  9. aloof: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. aloof: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. aloof: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Aloof, aloof: Dictionary.com
  13. aloof: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. aloof: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Aloof, The Aloof: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Aloof: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. aloof: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. aloof: Rhymezone
  19. aloof: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. aloof: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Aloof: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. aloof: Free Dictionary
  23. aloof: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Aloof: The Word Detective
  25. aloof: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aloof: Legal dictionary

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  1. aloof: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aloof: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aloof: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Aloof: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See aloofly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.
adverb:  Without sympathy; unfavorably.
adjective:  Reserved and remote; either physically or emotionally distant; standoffish.

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