Both Uses of
aloof
in
Pride and Prejudice
- Come, let me see the list of pitiful fellows who have been kept aloof by Lydia's folly.†
p. 223.3aloof = socially distant or uninterested
- They stood a little aloof while he was talking to their niece, who, astonished and confused, scarcely dared lift her eyes to his face, and knew not what answer she returned to his civil inquiries after her family.†
p. 241.3 *
Definition:
socially distant or uninterested in something that interests others -- often thinking oneself superior to others