Synonyms and Antonyms of standoff
having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others
- the client's standoff attitude suggested that this was going to be a strictly business relationship
aloof, antisocial, asocial, buttoned-up, cold, cold-eyed, cool, detached, distant, dry, frosty, offish, remote, standoffish, unbending, unclubbable, unsociable
indrawn, introverted, nongregarious, recessive, reclusive, reserved, unsocial, withdrawn
misanthropic
apathetic, hard, indifferent, unconcerned
clinical, dispassionate, impersonal, professional
disinterested, incurious, uninterested
reticent, silent, taciturn, uncommunicative
diffident, shy, timid
cliquey, cliquish, clubbish
boon, clubbable (also clubable), clubby, companionable, convivial, extroverted (also extraverted), gregarious, outgoing
communicative, expansive, garrulous, talkative
affable, folksy, genial, gracious, hospitable
agreeable, amiable, congenial, kindly, neighborly
