Meaning

3 senses
  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.

  2. Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.

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

  3. (not comparable)Imported into a cable television system from a different market (and thus possibly incurring a copyright royalty).

More definitions
  • located far away spatially
  • separate or apart in time
  • separated in space or coming from or going to a distance
  • far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship

Examples

198 sentences
  1. Tom and I are distant relatives.

    Ми з Томом далекі родичі.

    deTom und ich sind entfernte Verwandte.

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  2. You seem distant.

    Здається, що ти далеко.

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  3. He is a distant relation of hers.

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  4. We can see distant objects with a telescope.

    deMit dem Teleskop kann man ferne Dinge sehen.

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  5. Why are you being so distant?

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Origin

Inherited from Middle English distaunt, from Old French distant, from Latin distāns.

Inherited from Middle English distaunt, from Old French distant, from Latin distāns.

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Forms

more distant, most distant
Comparativemore distant Lesson
Superlativemost distant Lesson

regular

Synonyms

28 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

3 antonyms

Word family

1 related words
Relateddistance

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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