offish

offish: Synonyms and related words:

Olympian, above all that, ailing, aloof, backward, bashful, blank, chilled, chilly, cold, constrained, cool, detached, discreet, distant, donsie, exclusive, expressionless, forbidding, frigid, frosty, guarded, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, indisposed, insociable, introverted, low, mean, modest, off-color, poorly, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, seclusive, shrinking, sickly, solitary, standoff, standoffish, subdued, suppressed, unaffable, unapproachable, unbending, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unexpansive, ungenial, withdrawn

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Offish — Off ish, a. Shy or distant in manner; aloof; stand offish. [Colloq. U.S.] [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
offish — [ôf′ish] adj. Informal STANDOFFISH … English World dictionary
offish — adjective informal behaving in a slightly unfriendly or impolite way: I don t know why but she seemed a bit offish to me … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
offish — adjective Etymology: 1off Date: 1827 standoffish • offishness noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
offish — offishly, adv. offishness, n. /aw fish, of ish/, adj. Informal. aloof; unapproachable; standoffish. [1825 35, Amer.; OFF + ISH1] * * * … Universalium
offish — adjective aloof See Also: standoffish … Wiktionary
offish — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Not friendly, sociable, or warm in manner: aloof, chill, chilly, cool, distant, remote, reserved, reticent, solitary, standoffish, unapproachable, uncommunicative, undemonstrative, withdrawn. See ATTITUDE, HOT … English dictionary for students
offish — offÂ·ish || É‘fÉªÊƒ , É” / É’f adj. standing away from, disinterested; aloof (Informal) … English contemporary dictionary
offish — adjective informal aloof or distant in manner. Derivatives offishly adverb offishness noun … English new terms dictionary
offish — off·ish … English syllables

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