Standoffish vs Null - What's the difference?
standoffish | null |
Aloof; reserved; unsociable and unfriendly.
*1899 ,
*1922 , , Ulysses , episode 16,
*:His initial impression was that he was a bit standoffish or not over effusive.
*1928 , , Lady Chatterley's Lover , ch. 7,
*:They were always a haughty family, standoffish in a way, as they've a right to be.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an adjective standoffish
is aloof; reserved; unsociable and unfriendly.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.standoffish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was stand–offish with the other agents, and they on their side said he was the manager’s spy upon them.
Synonyms
*cold *distantSee also
*standoff *stand offReferences
* * *"standoffish"in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987–1996.
null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.