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nonaloof

nonaloof adjective: not aloof; emotionally accessible.

Adjective

nonaloof (comparative more nonaloof, superlative most nonaloof)

  1. Not aloof; emotionally accessible.
    • His ease with people, his celebrated smile, his nonaloof manner and warm, man-of-the-people style coupled with his proven antifascism, covered him with a mantle of assumed concern, benevolence, honesty, and wisdom.1981, Blanche Wiesen Cook, The Declassified Eisenhower: A Divided Legacy, page 121
    • Parents of TD children used the eyes to detect emotion, and nonaloof parents of children with ASDs fell somewhere in between.2008, Autism, Lisa D. Benaron, page 121

Examples of nonaloof in a sentence

  • The principal will be so nonaloof that he becomes instructive.2008, B. Shouriamma, Education Administration, page 91:
  • Then, to her annoyance, the emotional, nonaloof, nonproper woman seized her vocal cords.2011, Leslie Parrish, Cold Touch: Extrasensory Agents:

Forms of nonaloof

comparativemore nonaloof
superlativemost nonaloof

Origin of nonaloof

From non- + aloof.

Questions about nonaloof

What does nonaloof mean?
Nonaloof means not aloof; emotionally accessible.
How do you use nonaloof in a sentence?
The principal will be so nonaloof that he becomes instructive.
What part of speech is nonaloof?
Nonaloof is an adjective.

Words near nonaloof in the dictionary

  1. nonallusive
  2. nonalluvial
  3. nonally
  4. nonalogue
  5. nonalone
  6. nonaloof
  7. nonalopecic
  8. nonalphabetic
  9. nonalphabetical
  10. nonalphabetically
  11. nonalphabetized

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