What is the meaning of aloof?

adjective

  • Remote in manner.
    • usage: "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers"

adverb

  • In an aloof manner.
    • usage: "the local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough"
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