Definitions for aloof

aloof a·loof

Spelling: [uh-loof]
IPA: /əˈluf/

Aloof is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in aloof (afloo).

Definitions for aloof

adverb

  1. at a distance, especially in feeling or interest; apart:

adjective

  1. reserved or reticent; indifferent; disinterested:

Origin of aloof

1525-35; a-1 + loof luff windward

Examples for aloof

With irony and wit he charmed a nation, but displayed a detachment that kept him aloof from the passions of his time.

Peter stood there silent, aloof, detached; and he appeared quite cool.

aloof and bookish, Pius XI (Achille Ratti) spent years as a Vatican librarian before becoming a diplomat and cardinal.

They should ask themselves instead how anyone as bored and aloof as Barack Obama could bother himself to hate anything.

I can see how it would make people come across as cagey or aloof.

Little Fay was as obstreperous as Tony was disagreeably silent and aloof.

She stood as cold and aloof as earlier she had been warm and clinging.

A Utah mother charged with killing six of her infant children was described as cold and aloof by a neighbor.

Even so; and of all men Socrates stood most aloof from such crimes.

She was like the falling of this starlight, pure, aloof, and strange and gentle.

Word Value for aloof
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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