aloof (adv.)
aloof (adj.)
- above
- alienated
- alone
- antisocial
- apart
- apathetic
- arrogant
- away
- backward
- bashful
- benumbed
- blank
- blase
- bored
- broken
- careless
- casual
- chilly
- cold
- comatose
- constrained
- cool
- detached
- disconnected
- discontinuous
- discreet
- discrete
- disdainful
- disinterested
- distant
- dull
- exclusive
- expressionless
- forbidding
- formal
- friendless
- frigid
- frosty
- guarded
- haughty
- heartless
- heedless
- high
- homeless
- hopeless
- icy
- impassive
- impersonal
- inaccessible
- incoherent
- inconsistent
- incurious
- indifferent
- insouciant
- insular
- introverted
- isolated
- languid
- lethargic
- listless
- lone
- lonely
- lonesome
- mindless
- modest
- nonadhesive
- nonchalant
- numb
- numbed
- off
- offish
- open
- over
- overhead
- passive
- phlegmatic
- private
- proud
- regardless
- remote
- removed
- repressed
- reserved
- restrained
- reticent
- retiring
- rootless
- separate
- separated
- shrinking
- single-handed
- skyward
- slack
- sluggish
- solitary
- solo
- soporific
- spiritless
- standoffish
- stoic
- stolid
- stupefied
- subdued
- supercilious
- supine
- suppressed
- tenuous
- tiptoe
- torpid
- unaccompanied
- unaided
- unapproachable
- unassisted
- unattended
- unbending
- uncaring
- unconcerned
- uncongenial
- unconnected
- undemonstrative
- unexpansive
- unfriendly
- uninquiring
- uninterested
- uninvolved
- unmindful
- unresponsive
- unsociable
- unsocial
- unsupported
- unsympathetic
- up
- upstairs
- upward
- withdrawn
They stood aloof, the scars remaining,—
Like cliffs which had been rent asunder:
A dreary sea now flows between.
