n. the rear part of the stage

v. steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else; "When the dog entered the stage, he upstaged the actress"

v. treat snobbishly, put in one's place

v. move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience

adv. at or toward the rear of the stage; "the dancers were directed to move upstage"

adj. of the back half of a stage; "she crossed to the upstage chair forcing the lead to turn his back to the audience"

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. not hospitable; "they are extremely inhospitable these days"; "her greeting was cold and inhospitable"

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. of the sun characterized by a low level of surface phenomena like sunspots e.g.

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 withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life"

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"

adv. at or toward the front of the stage; "the actors moved further and further downstage"

adj. of the front half of a stage

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 or kinship ; "a distant cousin"; "a remote relative"; "a distant likeness"; "considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics"