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distant

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Adjective
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dis=tant

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective distant has 5 senses

OXFORD DICTIONARY

distant, adj.
1 a far away in space or time. b (usu. predic.; often foll. by from) at a specified distance (three miles distant from them).
2 remote or far apart in position, time, resemblance, etc. (a distant prospect; a distant relation; a distant likeness).
3 not intimate; reserved; cool (a distant bow).
4 remote; abstracted (a distant stare).
5 faint, vague (he was a distant memory to her).

Idiom
distant early warning US a radar system for the early detection of a missile attack. distant signal Railways a railway signal preceding a home signal to give warning.
Derivative
distantly adv.
Etymology
ME f. OF distant or L distant- part. stem of distare: see DISTANCE

THESAURUS

distant

Olympian, above all that, aloof, apart, apathetic, arrogant, asunder, at a distance, away, backward, barely audible, bashful, blank, bored, careless, ceremonious, chilled, chilly, cold, constrained, cool, decrescendo, detached, dim, discreet, disinterested, disparate, dissimilar, distal, divergent, diverse, exclusive, exotic, expressionless, faint, faint-voiced, far, far off, far-flung, far-off, faraway, farfetched, feeble, forbidding, forced, formal, frigid, frosty, gentle, guarded, half-heard, haughty, heedless, icy, impassive, impersonal, improbable, inaccessible, incurious, indifferent, indistinct, insociable, insouciant, introverted, isolated, listless, long-distance, long-range, low, mindless, modest, murmured, obscure, off, offish, out-of-the-way, outlying, phlegmatic, pianissimo, piano, proud, quite another thing, regardless, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retired, retiring, rigid, scarcely heard, secluded, seclusive, secret, separated, sequestered, shrinking, shy, soft, soft-sounding, soft-voiced, solitary, something else again, standoff, standoffish, stiff, stolid, strained, subaudible, subdued, suppressed, unaffable, unalike, unapproachable, unclear, uncompanionable, unconcerned, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unequal, unexpansive, unfriendly, ungenial, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unlike, unmindful, unsimilar, various, weak, weak-voiced, whispered, withdrawn

ROGET THESAURUS

distant

Distance

N distance, space, remoteness, farness, far- cry to, longinquity, elongation, offing, background, remote region, removedness, parallax, reach, span, stride, outpost, outskirt, horizon, aphelion, foreign parts, ultima Thule, ne plus ultra, antipodes, long range, giant's stride, dispersion, length, cosmic distance, light-years, distant, far off, far away, remote, telescopic, distal, wide of, stretching to, yon, yonder, ulterior, transmarine, transpontine, transatlantic, transalpine, tramontane, ultramontane, ultramundane, hyperborean, antipodean, inaccessible, out of the way, unapproached, unapproachable, incontiguous, far off, far away, afar, afar off, off, away, a long way off, a great way off, a good way off, wide away, aloof, wide of, clear of, out of the way, out of reach, abroad, yonder, farther, further, beyond, outre mer, over the border, far and wide, over the hills and far away, from pole to pole, to the uttermost parts, to the ends of the earth, out of hearing, nobody knows where, a perte de vue, out of the sphere of, wide of the mark, a far cry to, apart, asunder, wide apart, wide asunder, longo intervallo, at arm's length, distance lends enchantment, it's a long long way to Tipperary, out of sight, out of mind.

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