unapproachable

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

not liking or being pleasant towards others
unfriendlyThe crowd was unfriendly and dangerous.
coolShe was very cool towards his new wife.
coldShe's a cold, heartless woman.
icyHe gave me an icy stare.
glacialHer reception of him was glacial.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not being friendly
abrasive
abrasively
abrasiveness
abruptly
abruptness
aloof
estrangement from someone
flintily
forbidding
forbiddingly
freezingly
frigid
gruff
offish
remote
remoteness
reserved
reservedly
saturnine
wintry

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Not showing or feeling emotions

distant | American Dictionary

distant
adjective
us/ˈdɪs·tənt/
far away in space or time:
She dreamed of traveling to distant lands.
We could hear the sound of distant thunder.
Someone whose manner is distant does not show much emotion and is not friendly.

Examples of distant

distant
Also, an expanding navy would require coaling stations and bases in distant lands.
Since 2ó is rather distant from 6ó, however, this result may not be reliable.
While their early attempts at producing word forms may be fairly distant from the adult versions, they generally share sounds in common.
Moreover, this model of narrative authority is not that distant from our own.
Four out of the five were found close together in the channel filling and the fifth approximately 10 ft distant.
In effect, there was a local frontier, albeit owned by parents, and a distant one that was dangerous.
He added a call for pragmatism, 'an unlikely and distant possibility can never be an argument against a present advantage'.
They are the subject of their own allegory, the distant, marvellous, magical representation which stands for everything and explains nothing, perfect in their ultimate irreducibility.
Is the resemblance too distant to give the point any substantial interest?
The" form" was linked to real people, not distant" researchers", and the whole project was owned by everyone involved.
History sometimes exhibits weird symmetries between events distant from one another in place and time.
Cells most distant from the basement membrane showed no staining (white arrowhead).
The impact of the international politics of the cold war upon most developing countries was rather distant.
The preference between candidates at the same level or at neighbouring levels was weak, while that between candidates at more distant levels was strong.
News of more distant forthcoming premieres is given more briefly; full details will be found in subsequent issues.
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