Standoffish

Adjective

 * 1) Aloof; reserved; unsociable and unfriendly.
 * 2) *1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, episode 16,
 * His initial impression was that he was a bit standoffish or not over effusive.
 * 1) *1928, D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover, ch. 7,
 * They were always a haughty family, standoffish in a way, as they've a right to be.

Thesaurus
Olympian, above all that, aloof, backward, bashful, blank, chilled, chilly, cold, constrained, cool, detached, discreet, distant, eremitic, exclusive, expressionless, forbidding, frigid, frosty, guarded, haughty, highfalutin, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, insociable, introverted, lordly, misanthropic, modest, offish, pompous, reclusive, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, seclusive, shrinking, snooty, solitary, standoff, subdued, suppressed, unaffable, unapproachable, uncompanionable, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unexpansive, unfriendly, ungenial, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn

Synonyms

 * cold
 * distant

Related terms

 * standoffishness