Aloof vs Rigid - What's the difference?
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At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.
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Reserved and remote; either physically or emotionally distant; standoffish.
(obsolete) away from; clear of
* Milton
Stiff, rather than flexible.
Fixed, rather than moving.
* 2011 ,David Foster Wallace, The Pale King ,Penguin Books, page 5:
Rigorous and unbending.
Uncompromising.
As adjectives the difference between aloof and rigid
is that aloof is reserved and remote; either physically or emotionally distant; standoffish while rigid is stiff, rather than flexible.As an adverb aloof
is at or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.As a preposition aloof
is away from; clear of.aloof
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Adverb
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Adjective
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(English prepositions)- Rivetus would fain work himself aloof these rocks and quicksands.
rigid
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Adjective
(en adjective)- A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys.