distant

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1

(adj.) far away in space

VERBS

be, sound

become, grow

As she walked away, her footsteps became distant and eventually faded into silence.

ADV

far

The mountains were far distant, barely visible through the morning fog.

very

My grandparents lived in a very distant city that took two days to reach by train.

increasingly

unimaginably

Even though they lived in the same city, their dreams felt unimaginably distant from each other.

geographically

The two cities are geographically distant, but they share a surprising number of cultural traditions.

PREP

from

The new shopping mall is quite distant from where I live.

2

(adj.) far away in time

VERBS

be

ADV

very | increasingly

fairly, not too

We hope to meet again fairly distant from now, perhaps next summer.

PHRASES

the dim and distant past

My grandparents often talk about their childhood in the dim and distant past.

3

(adj.) not friendly/not paying attention

VERBS

be, seem | become | remain | find sb

ADV

very | rather, slightly

strangely

After the argument, she seemed strangely distant whenever he tried to talk to her.

Definitions

adj

1

Far off (physically, logically or mentally).

We heard a distant rumbling but didn't pay any more attention to it. She was surprised to find that her fiancé was a distant relative of hers. His distant look showed that he was not listening to me.

Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.

2

Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.

Ever since our argument, she has been totally distant toward me.

3

Imported into a cable television system from a different market (and thus possibly incurring a copyright royalty).

Any determination that a particular television signal is "distant" must, of course, be made with respect to its proximity to a specific local area, which we have termed the CATV community, […]

Finally, there will be those unusual situations where a signal is distant to part of a CATV system and local to the rest of it.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — located far away spatially

remote

adjective — separate or apart in time

adjective — far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship

remote

adjective — remote in manner

Antonyms

close

Idioms & Phrases

dim and distant

Of a very long time ago, so as to be almost forgotten.

the dim and distant past

Example Bank

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We heard a distant rumbling but didn't pay any more attention to it. She was surprised to find that her fiancé was a distant relative of hers. His distant look showed that he was not listening to me.

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Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I de

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03

Ever since our argument, she has been totally distant toward me.

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04

We can see distant objects with a telescope.

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05

Distant things look blurred.

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06

We saw the gleam of a distant lighthouse.

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Collocations

(adj.) far away in space

(adj.) far away in time

(adj.) not friendly/not paying attention

Definitions

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Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

dim and distant

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