adv. in an aloof manner; "the local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough"

adj. lacking the warmth of life; "cold in his grave"

adj. remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers"

adj. easily startled or frightened

adj. marked by blithe unconcern; "an ability to interest casual students"; "showed a casual disregard for cold weather"; "an utterly insouciant financial policy"; "an elegantly insouciant manner"; "drove his car with nonchalant abandon"; "was polite in a teasing nonchalant manner"

adj. showing lack of emotional involvement; "adopted a degage pose on the arm of the easy chair"- J.S.Perelman; "she may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive"; "an uninvolved bystander"

adj. unfavorable to life or growth; "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas"

adj. "relations were cool and polite"

adj. lacking cordiality; unfriendly; "a standoffish manner"

adj. not inclined to society or companionship; "an unsociable nature...shy and reserved"; "generally unsociable except with intimate friends"; "unsociable behavior"; "an unsociable neighborhood"

adj. habitually reserved and uncommunicative

adj. brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand"

adj. characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity; "a quiet life"; "a quiet throng of onlookers"; "quiet peace-loving people"; "the factions remained quiet for almost 10 years"

adj. not disposed to friendship or friendliness; "an unfriendly coldness of manner"; "an unfriendly action to take"

adj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer

adj. withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life"

adv. "These problems apart, the country is doing well"

adj. lacking personality; "nonpersonal forces"

adj. (reserved)

adj. showing modest reserve; "she was diffident when offering a comment on the professor's lecture"

adj. tending to reserve or introspection; "a quiet indrawn man"

adj. having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship; "on familiar terms"; "pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders"

adj. far apart in relevance or relationship; "a distant cousin"; "a distant likeness"