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standoffnoun a situation in which neither participant in a contest, competition, or struggle comes out ahead of the otherafter two hours they had played to a 5-5 standoff a point in a struggle where neither side is capable of winning or willing to give inthe standoff continued for three days before the fugitive gave himself up to the authorities deadlock, gridlock, halt, impasse, logjam, Mexican standoff, stalemate, standstill dead endbind, bottleneck, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, jam, morass, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, quagmire, quandary, spotdifficultyproblem having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in othersthe client's standoff attitude suggested that this was going to be a strictly business relationship aloof, antisocial, asocial, buttoned-up, cold, cold-eyed, cool, detached, distant, dry, frosty, offish, remote, standoffish, unbending, unclubbable, unsociable indrawn, introverted, nongregarious, recessive, reclusive, reserved, unsocial, withdrawnmisanthropicapathetic, hard, indifferent, unconcernedclinical, dispassionate, impersonal, professionaldisinterested, incurious, uninterestedreticent, silent, taciturn, uncommunicativediffident, shy, timidcliquey, cliquish, clubbish cordial, friendly, sociable, social, warm boon, clubbable(also clubable), clubby, companionable, convivial, extroverted(also extraverted), gregarious, outgoingcommunicative, expansive, garrulous, talkativeaffable, folksy, genial, gracious, hospitableagreeable, amiable, congenial, kindly, neighborly in 1603 |