stand-offish

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
standoffish \stand*off"ish\, stand-offish \stand-off"ish\a.
   Shy or distant in manner; cold; aloof; reserved; not
   friendly.

   Syn: offish.
        [PJC] -- {stand*off"ish*ness}, n. -- {stand*off"ish*ly},
        adv.
        [PJC]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "standoffish":
      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      withdrawn
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