Crossword-Solution: ALOOF 5 letters, 372 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Aloof	n.	Same as Alewife.
Aloof	adv.	At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.
Aloof	adv.	Without sympathy; unfavorably.
Aloof	prep.	Away from; clear from.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
ALOOF	anagram	AFOOL, LOOFA

We have 372 clues for the answer “ALOOF”

Clue	Answers
Affectless	1 answer
British attitude on Schuman Plan.	1 answer
Cold and unapproachable	1 answer
Cold fish-like	1 answer
Coldly distant	1 answer
Cool and distant	1 answer
Cool and reserved.	1 answer
Cool; detached	1 answer
Coolly distant	1 answer
Cooly detached	1 answer
Distant and cool	1 answer
Distant and detached	1 answer
Distant; reserved	1 answer
Emotionally detached	1 answer
Emotionally disengaged	1 answer
Emotionally removed	1 answer
Emotionally unengaged	1 answer
Emotionaly distant	1 answer
Far from engaged	1 answer
Hard to connect with	1 answer
Hard to form a bond with	1 answer
Hard to get close to	1 answer
Hardly warm	1 answer
Hardy warm	1 answer
Haughtily removed	1 answer
How shy people may stand	1 answer
IT CONSISTS OF 592 TCHASTS	1 answer
Icy and removed	1 answer
Intentionally apart	1 answer
Intentionally apart or cool	1 answer
Intentionally at a distance.	1 answer
Introverted, maybe	1 answer
Lacking human warmth	1 answer
Like a cold fish	1 answer
Like a loner	1 answer
Like an iceberg	1 answer
Like cold fish	1 answer
Near, but not close	1 answer
Not easily excitable	1 answer
Not easy to get close to	1 answer
Not engaging	1 answer
Not overly friendly	1 answer
Not particularly friendly	1 answer
Not personally engaged	1 answer
Not ready for a group hug, say	1 answer
Not too warm	1 answer
Not very affable	1 answer
Not very engaged	1 answer
Personally icy	1 answer
Rather distant	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ERAET

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with ALOOF (5)

Elation must have been in his heart, but his face did not reflect it: ever a dark and solitary enigma, he stood aloof from his followers in spirit as in substance.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

Now the earthenware pot tried its best to keep aloof from the brass one, which cried out: “Fear nothing, friend, I will not strike you.” “But I may come in contact with you,” said the other, “if I come too close; and whether I hit you, or you hit me, I shall suffer for it.” The strong and the weak cannot keep company.

The Fables of Aesop Aesop 1992

They at his sight grew mild, 310 Nor sleeping him nor waking harmed; his walk The fiery serpent fled and noxious worm; The lion and fierce tiger glared aloof.

Paradise Regained John Milton 1993

Hitherto, the life-blood has been gradually chilling in your veins as you sat aloof, within your circle of gentility, while the rest of the world was fighting out its battle with one kind of necessity or another.

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Gernois, never cordial, had kept more than ever aloof from Tarzan since the episode in the dining-room of the hotel at Aumale.

The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with ALOOF (3)

Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.

Herman Melville Bartleby the Scrivener

The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything is "in him"; nothing can happen to him. The same may also be said for the contemplative person; he needs himself alone; he lacks nothing.

Josef Pieper Happiness and Contemplation

An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird vegetation and immense vistas. Not very far away are Death Valley, and Yosemite, and Sequoia Forest with its giant trees which were growing long before the Parthenon was built; they are the oldest living things in the world. One should visit such places often, and be conscious, in the midst o…

Christopher Isherwood Exhumations

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 389 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).