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say it: uh-LOOF
aloof is an adjective and adverb meaning "remote in manner". It is pronounced /əˈluf/ — uh-LOOF. It carries 2 recorded senses.
in an aloof manner
“the local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for aloof come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.