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.
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One board had two tenons, equally distant. --Ex.
xxxvi. 22.
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Diana's temple is not distant far. --Shak.
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2. Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place,
time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times;
distant relatives.
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The success of these distant enterprises.
--Prescott.
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3. Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial;
somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner.
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He passed me with a distant bow. --Goldsmith.
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4. Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance.
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Some distant knowledge. --Shak.
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A distant glimpse. --W. Irving.
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5. Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so
widely distant from Christianity.
Syn: Separate; far; remote; aloof; apart; asunder; slight;
faint; indirect; indistinct.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
distant
adj 1: separated in space or time or coming from or going to a
distance; "the distant past"; "distant villages"; "the
sound of distant traffic"; "a distant sound"; "a
distant telephone call" [ant: close]
2: far apart in relevance or relationship; "a distant cousin";
"a distant likeness" [ant: close]
3: remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a
distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers" [syn: aloof,
upstage]
4: far distant in time; "distant events"; "the remote past or
future"; "a civilization ten centuries removed from modern
times" [syn: remote, removed]
5: far distant in space; "distant lands"; "remote stars"; "a
remote outpost of civilization"; "a hideaway far removed
from towns and cities" [syn: remote, removed]
WordNet (r) 2.0
136 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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