'Distant' definitions:
Definition of 'distant'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Separated in space or coming from or going to a distance; "distant villages"; "the sound of distant traffic"; "a distant sound"; "a distant telephone call" [ant: close]
adjective
Far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship ; "a distant cousin"; "a remote relative"; "a distant likeness"; "considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics" [syn: distant, remote] [ant: close]
adjective
Remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers" [syn: aloof, distant, upstage]
adjective
Separate or apart in time; "distant events"; "the remote past or future" [syn: distant, remote, removed]
adjective
Located far away spatially; "distant lands"; "remote stars" [syn: distant, remote]
Definition of 'Distant'
From: GCIDE
- Distant \Dis"tant\, a. [F., fr. L. distans, -antis, p. pr. of distare to stand apart, be separate or distant; dis- + stare to stand. See Stand.]
- 1. Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. [1913 Webster]
- One board had two tenons, equally distant. --Ex. xxxvi. 22. [1913 Webster]
- Diana's temple is not distant far. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives. [1913 Webster]
- The success of these distant enterprises. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner. [1913 Webster]
- He passed me with a distant bow. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance. [1913 Webster]
- Some distant knowledge. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A distant glimpse. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so widely distant from Christianity.
- Syn: Separate; far; remote; aloof; apart; asunder; slight; faint; indirect; indistinct. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'distant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Olympian,
- 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