Definition of distant in English:

distant

adjective ˈdɪst(ə)ntˈdɪstənt

1Far away in space or time.
distant parts of the world
I remember that distant afternoon
Example sentencesExamples
- Those days have faded into a vague and distant past.
- The wormhole in effect connects two distant points in space so as to form a shortcut.
- A number of colonies had been established in the distant Besalius sector of space.
- ‘I hope I die before I get old’ sang the Who when old age seemed to be something vague on a distant shore.
- I get my entertainment the modern way, borne on invisible rays beamed out from distant towers, which are relaying signals from outer space.
- Otherwise Lagerfeld was a distant star in a remote star system.
- Images of those back home remit to the audience the common connectivity among populations distant in space and culture.
- He went silent, eyes fixed on some distant point in space, somewhere around the vicinity of my head.
- The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to track distant star-forming galaxies in a project part-funded from Swindon.
- I spotted Adrian later in the afternoon staring at the distant tree line with a look of pondering in his eyes.
- The cutting edge graphics engine will present you a world of 5 huge cities on earth and several distant colonies in outer space.
- A man in the distant field caught her attention.
- To get a better view of the more distant planets requires space probes.
- He glanced toward the distant shore and nodded.
- You need to have thought of almost every eventuality when landing on a distant moon in a remote corner of the Solar System.
- And many of the photo studios used the backs of the photos as advertising space for a mysteriously distant Philadelphia.
- These responses are tempting because they yield immediate gains, while their costs are distant in time and space, uncertain, and hard to detect.
- E-mail may often be the only method available to contact sources in remote locations or in distant time zones.
- This allowed ships immediate access to distant points in space.
- Like many twins, Minneapolis and St. Paul are closely related but geographically distant.
Synonyms
faraway, far off, far
remote, out of the way, outlying, abroad, far-flung, obscure
isolated, cut off, off the beaten track
long ago, bygone
ancient, prehistoric, antediluvian, immemorial
literary olden, of yore
away, off, apart, separated
1. 1.1predicative (after a measurement) at a specified distance.
  the star is 30,000 light years distant from Earth
  the town lay half a mile distant
  Example sentencesExamples
  These are the people who will have to find a new role 400 miles distant from where the real nationalist action is.
  The NCWO have been appealing against a court ruling that the protests must take place at least 1.4 miles distant from the course.
  Yet it is light years distant from Indonesia's troubles in the eyes of multinational companies and foreign portfolio managers.
  These measures are too polite, too distant from the roiling consumer psyche to be of much use anymore.
  We are now three years distant from the biggest foreign policy blunder since the Second World War.
  Croglin Low Hall is probably the house indicated, but it is at least a mile distant from the church, which has been rebuilt.
  It is 10 billion miles from the sun, over three times more distant from the sun than its next closest planet, Pluto.
  Kovalam is several miles distant from the Temple.
  It may be worth noting that I'm watching the game on my computer roughly half a mile distant from the stadium.
  They lay not ten yards distant from the piles of beams and drywall being used to build some streamside condominiums.
2. 1.2 (of a sound) faint because far away.
  the distant bark of some farm dog
  Example sentencesExamples
  Suddenly all heads turned as the sound of a distant roar echoed over the plains.
  Through the open window, the sounds of distant laughter drifted from the resort.
  I listened carefully, hearing many city sounds, the distant laughter of humans, but no vampires were following me.
  So we arrived at the park to find many bicycles propped up against trees, and distant sounds of music and laughter.
  His voice sounded like the distant boom of thunder.
  As I touched the handle, I heard the distant sound of running footsteps.
  The dragon roared again, a sound like distant thunder, and opened its mouth as if to swallow her.
  A distant echo sounded in my head - the echo of the person I was fifteen, twenty years ago.
  Something chirped, a bird, but the sound was distant, faded.
  The rumbling noise sounded off again, the distant sounds of the war being waged just outside reaching their ears at a delayed rate.
  The sounds of distant footsteps above me brought me out of my guard.
  The sound of distant laughter growing closer killed their argument, if it even was one in the first place.
  The light is fading, and the distant sounds of the city are carried on a light breeze that creates ripples on the water.
  Ben was busy feeding his chickens when the sound of a distant echo caught his ears.
  Just then, the cave sounded with the distant echo of quick, flapping wings.
  For a while, the only sounds heard were the distant roar of the highway outside and the tapping rain on the window.
  Dark clouds gathered above her head and she swore she heard the distant sound of thunder.
  Alyssa listened too and heard the distant sound of footsteps coming down the hall.
  As if mirroring my thoughts I heard the sound of not too distant thunder rumbling above that sent a shiver through me.
  There was a sound of distant thunder in the sinister skies above, and she slowly glanced up.
3. 1.3 Remote or far apart in resemblance or relationship.
  a distant acquaintance
  Example sentencesExamples
  The fact their relationships were more distant does mean, of course, that there is still hope.
  Rail links that put San Francisco and LA only a couple of hours apart remain a distant dream, too.
  I'm now involved, with a number of linguists, in a project I helped to organize to explore very distant relationships among human languages.
  He has emerged from a period of unease about your and Julia's brief and palaeolithically distant college relationship to become a trusted friend.
  Quite often, people have a rather strained and distant relationship to their own body.
  More distant acquaintances come up and say, ‘Where've you been?’
  Metaphor provides startling redescriptions of the world by revealing an unexpected resemblance between once distant and divergent terms.
  Birds with permanent roosts became the couple's rather more distant but equally delightful acquaintances.
  It's like the classic situation where John introduces his girlfriend Mary to his distant acquaintance Sam, and Mary ends up leaving John for Sam.
  When she saw only trees and the distant resemblance of the garden that was behind the house, she couldn't understand what he saw.
  He said the errors may have been a function of the ‘loose and in some ways distant relationship he's been allowed to have with Today’.
  That relationship was quite distant, and so he absorbed himself in a tiny scientific world in order to make sense of that relationship.
  However, they bear only a distant, very abstract resemblance to real economic activity.
  I keep thinking he's appointed every last close friend, family friend, political friend, or even distant loyal acquaintance of his to a job.
  But a distant acquaintance of mine, who has an African mother and a French father, came out with a shattering truth.
  The wing, landing gear, powerplant, empennage and panel have only a distant resemblance to the homebuilt's equivalents.
  We might have a distant relationship, but I don't wish her badly.
  To make matters more difficult, today neighbourhood relationships become more distant.
  Synonyms
  remote, indirect, slight
4. 1.4attributive (of a person) not closely related.
  a distant cousin of the King
  Example sentencesExamples
  They tell him not to get it removed, a surgical procedure that would take five minutes according to Krishnanunni's distant cousin in town.
  Do they dare range this far north, leaving south Florida's brackish mangrove swamps, to court some distant cousin?
  In fact the commando - described as a ‘splendid man’ by Lord Harewood - was merely a distant cousin.
  Her father had arranged her marriage to a distant cousin.
  However, it still shares many (if not most) of the same characteristics of our distant ancestors.
  If someone asks me how I'm related to the bride or groom, I say I'm a distant cousin.
  Rather, the naming system complements the kinship system in that it provides people with an easy tool to establish their relationship even with distant kin.
  He has very dark hair and lovely eyes and if you roughed him up a bit he could pass for a distant cousin of George Clooney's on a dark night.
  My voice was muffled and with the hair that undoubtedly surrounded my whole hunched over form, I most likely resembled a distant relative of cousin It.
  By the age of five he was speaking French, having been instructed by a distant cousin in the back seat of grandmother's LaSalle.
  My mother and aunt visited this weekend, and we spent most of Thursday and Friday with them and a distant cousin who lives here in KC.
  Anjali Sircar, tired of room hunting, asked her distant cousin, Yash, to pretend to be her fiancé and wangled a single room at Khar.
  Even if you counted distant third cousins, our ancestors might have been exposed to a grand total of 500 people in their lifetime.
  The cousins were distant (what we call in Scotland ‘out-cousins’) and monied and rather flash.
  She looks more human now, but still behaves like her distant cousins.
  ‘I met a distant cousin at one of these fairs,’ said a lady.
  And if you tossed his distant cousin out of his house, wouldn't he mind that?
  They did say they were venture capitalists from New Hampshire and sons of some distant cousin or aunt, I think.
  However, if laws prohibiting adult incest were extended to, say, distant cousins, what possible justification could be given?
  Reflecting back on a day of preparation for two hours of company, I wonder about our dim, distant ancestors.
2(of a person) not intimate; cool or reserved.
his children found him strangely distant
she and my father were distant with each other
Example sentencesExamples
- He was cold and distant with everyone outside his tribe, and quiet when dealing even with his own.
- Even conditions like schizophrenia and autism were blamed on environmental factors like cold and distant mothers.
- They were cold and distant with each other having had very little contact in the past two weeks.
- My mom was distant and cold, and very uninvolved in my life.
- This night they were distant and cold, displaced from the rest of the world, impartial observers of what happened here.
- Even normally cool and distant Daniel was trying his best to control his emotions, he was so afraid he would break down.
- But the dog demon was growing colder and more distant with each passing day.
- Arliss's direction does often appear perfunctory, and his actors remembered him as a rather cold, distant figure.
- Her memories were of a kind and generous man who contrasted sharply with her cold and distant mother.
- Kathy is too angry and resentful to care and Josh has gradually come to grow indifferent toward his drunken distant father.
- He was distant with his daughter and didn't even bother to attend her wedding.
- The memoirs describing late nineteenth-century childhood are replete with images of cold, distant parents.
- He grew up poor, with a violent, domineering mother and a cold, distant father.
- An elderly couple holiday with their two sons, but something is clearly amiss; the mother is distant and surly, ignoring everything around her.
- They are not the ordinances of a stern and distant judge but the loving gift of the bridegroom to his beloved.
- Caught up in his naval background, he was distant and impersonal.
- He was so distant and reserved now, but I had no idea how he had been before.
- Jack was distant, unfriendly at best, and then he even abruptly pulled out a textbook and started to read it, blocking us out completely.
- But something seemed to have changed between them, and now they were distant with each other.
- I was just saying, if he was so close and warm at the beginning, and now he's distant and cold, there could be a reason.
Synonyms
aloof, reserved, remote, detached, unapproachable, stand-offish, keeping people at arm's length
withdrawn, restrained, reticent, taciturn, uncommunicative, undemonstrative, unforthcoming
cool, cold, frigid, chilly, icy, frosty
formal, stiff, stuffy, ceremonious, unresponsive, unfriendly, haughty, forbidding, austere, mean-looking
1. 2.1 Not paying attention; remote.
  a distant look in his eyes
  Example sentencesExamples
  On those nights, they sat on the patio together, Leon attentive, Sylvie responsive, yet distant somehow.
  The result is a series of distant, icy meditations on life and living; impossibly remote and unhealthily introspective.
  The young knight nodded, but his eyes were distant, his face drawn.
  I snap to attention, finding myself irritated by the distant glint in her shapely eyes.
  There was certainly nothing remote or distant about her own sense of dignity.
  ‘It's so distant and remote, they thought nobody would ever find it,’ says county sheriff Ronnie Oakes.
  Aislinn nodded gravely, her eyes momentarily taking on a distant light.
  Kaitya nodded, her eyes were beginning to regain their glazed distant feel.
  Sometimes the distant and remote are better at igniting our compassion than the close and familiar.
  It seemed that her features changed, became remote, distant.
  Now his attention was on the distant mental strings of summoning power he wielded.
  The door opened, and the Lord nodded to me, his eyes distant and serene.
  Their agenda and top down style of leadership is remote, distant, and often wildly out of step with the needs of poor and working class blacks.
  Aria nodded and looked away, as if in distant thought.
  He thought a moment and then nodded, but a distant look had overtaken his eyes.
  He was still the same, attentive and distant at the same time, while Alex tried to act as if they were just friends.
  She showed how to be regal without being remote, dignified without being distant and she had the loveliest smile in the world.
  Synonyms
  distracted, absent-minded, absent, faraway, detached, distrait, vague

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin distant- 'standing apart', from the verb distare, from dis- 'apart' + stare 'stand'.

Rhymes

assistant, coexistent, consistent, equidistant, existent, insistent, persistent, resistant, subsistent, water-resistant

Definition of distant in US English:

distant

adjectiveˈdistəntˈdɪstənt

1Far away in space or time.
distant parts of the world
I remember that distant afternoon
Example sentencesExamples
- Otherwise Lagerfeld was a distant star in a remote star system.
- And many of the photo studios used the backs of the photos as advertising space for a mysteriously distant Philadelphia.
- I get my entertainment the modern way, borne on invisible rays beamed out from distant towers, which are relaying signals from outer space.
- This allowed ships immediate access to distant points in space.
- The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to track distant star-forming galaxies in a project part-funded from Swindon.
- E-mail may often be the only method available to contact sources in remote locations or in distant time zones.
- You need to have thought of almost every eventuality when landing on a distant moon in a remote corner of the Solar System.
- The wormhole in effect connects two distant points in space so as to form a shortcut.
- ‘I hope I die before I get old’ sang the Who when old age seemed to be something vague on a distant shore.
- Those days have faded into a vague and distant past.
- He glanced toward the distant shore and nodded.
- He went silent, eyes fixed on some distant point in space, somewhere around the vicinity of my head.
- Images of those back home remit to the audience the common connectivity among populations distant in space and culture.
- The cutting edge graphics engine will present you a world of 5 huge cities on earth and several distant colonies in outer space.
- A man in the distant field caught her attention.
- I spotted Adrian later in the afternoon staring at the distant tree line with a look of pondering in his eyes.
- These responses are tempting because they yield immediate gains, while their costs are distant in time and space, uncertain, and hard to detect.
- Like many twins, Minneapolis and St. Paul are closely related but geographically distant.
- To get a better view of the more distant planets requires space probes.
- A number of colonies had been established in the distant Besalius sector of space.
Synonyms
faraway, far off, far
long ago, bygone
away, off, apart, separated
1. 1.1predicative (after a measurement) at a specified distance.
  the star is 30,000 light years distant from Earth
  the town lay half a mile distant
  Example sentencesExamples
  These are the people who will have to find a new role 400 miles distant from where the real nationalist action is.
  They lay not ten yards distant from the piles of beams and drywall being used to build some streamside condominiums.
  The NCWO have been appealing against a court ruling that the protests must take place at least 1.4 miles distant from the course.
  Croglin Low Hall is probably the house indicated, but it is at least a mile distant from the church, which has been rebuilt.
  Kovalam is several miles distant from the Temple.
  It is 10 billion miles from the sun, over three times more distant from the sun than its next closest planet, Pluto.
  These measures are too polite, too distant from the roiling consumer psyche to be of much use anymore.
  Yet it is light years distant from Indonesia's troubles in the eyes of multinational companies and foreign portfolio managers.
  It may be worth noting that I'm watching the game on my computer roughly half a mile distant from the stadium.
  We are now three years distant from the biggest foreign policy blunder since the Second World War.
2. 1.2 (of a sound) faint or vague because far away.
  the distant bark of some farm dog
  Example sentencesExamples
  Dark clouds gathered above her head and she swore she heard the distant sound of thunder.
  So we arrived at the park to find many bicycles propped up against trees, and distant sounds of music and laughter.
  I listened carefully, hearing many city sounds, the distant laughter of humans, but no vampires were following me.
  The light is fading, and the distant sounds of the city are carried on a light breeze that creates ripples on the water.
  Something chirped, a bird, but the sound was distant, faded.
  As if mirroring my thoughts I heard the sound of not too distant thunder rumbling above that sent a shiver through me.
  Suddenly all heads turned as the sound of a distant roar echoed over the plains.
  Just then, the cave sounded with the distant echo of quick, flapping wings.
  Ben was busy feeding his chickens when the sound of a distant echo caught his ears.
  For a while, the only sounds heard were the distant roar of the highway outside and the tapping rain on the window.
  The dragon roared again, a sound like distant thunder, and opened its mouth as if to swallow her.
  There was a sound of distant thunder in the sinister skies above, and she slowly glanced up.
  The sound of distant laughter growing closer killed their argument, if it even was one in the first place.
  A distant echo sounded in my head - the echo of the person I was fifteen, twenty years ago.
  Alyssa listened too and heard the distant sound of footsteps coming down the hall.
  The rumbling noise sounded off again, the distant sounds of the war being waged just outside reaching their ears at a delayed rate.
  As I touched the handle, I heard the distant sound of running footsteps.
  His voice sounded like the distant boom of thunder.
  The sounds of distant footsteps above me brought me out of my guard.
  Through the open window, the sounds of distant laughter drifted from the resort.
3. 1.3 Remote or far apart in resemblance or relationship.
  a distant acquaintance
  Example sentencesExamples
  The fact their relationships were more distant does mean, of course, that there is still hope.
  He has emerged from a period of unease about your and Julia's brief and palaeolithically distant college relationship to become a trusted friend.
  It's like the classic situation where John introduces his girlfriend Mary to his distant acquaintance Sam, and Mary ends up leaving John for Sam.
  The wing, landing gear, powerplant, empennage and panel have only a distant resemblance to the homebuilt's equivalents.
  I'm now involved, with a number of linguists, in a project I helped to organize to explore very distant relationships among human languages.
  However, they bear only a distant, very abstract resemblance to real economic activity.
  We might have a distant relationship, but I don't wish her badly.
  I keep thinking he's appointed every last close friend, family friend, political friend, or even distant loyal acquaintance of his to a job.
  He said the errors may have been a function of the ‘loose and in some ways distant relationship he's been allowed to have with Today’.
  When she saw only trees and the distant resemblance of the garden that was behind the house, she couldn't understand what he saw.
  To make matters more difficult, today neighbourhood relationships become more distant.
  Quite often, people have a rather strained and distant relationship to their own body.
  But a distant acquaintance of mine, who has an African mother and a French father, came out with a shattering truth.
  That relationship was quite distant, and so he absorbed himself in a tiny scientific world in order to make sense of that relationship.
  Birds with permanent roosts became the couple's rather more distant but equally delightful acquaintances.
  More distant acquaintances come up and say, ‘Where've you been?’
  Rail links that put San Francisco and LA only a couple of hours apart remain a distant dream, too.
  Metaphor provides startling redescriptions of the world by revealing an unexpected resemblance between once distant and divergent terms.
  Synonyms
  remote, indirect, slight
4. 1.4attributive (of a person) not closely related.
  a distant cousin
  Example sentencesExamples
  And if you tossed his distant cousin out of his house, wouldn't he mind that?
  Even if you counted distant third cousins, our ancestors might have been exposed to a grand total of 500 people in their lifetime.
  Her father had arranged her marriage to a distant cousin.
  They tell him not to get it removed, a surgical procedure that would take five minutes according to Krishnanunni's distant cousin in town.
  If someone asks me how I'm related to the bride or groom, I say I'm a distant cousin.
  However, if laws prohibiting adult incest were extended to, say, distant cousins, what possible justification could be given?
  ‘I met a distant cousin at one of these fairs,’ said a lady.
  The cousins were distant (what we call in Scotland ‘out-cousins’) and monied and rather flash.
  He has very dark hair and lovely eyes and if you roughed him up a bit he could pass for a distant cousin of George Clooney's on a dark night.
  By the age of five he was speaking French, having been instructed by a distant cousin in the back seat of grandmother's LaSalle.
  My mother and aunt visited this weekend, and we spent most of Thursday and Friday with them and a distant cousin who lives here in KC.
  In fact the commando - described as a ‘splendid man’ by Lord Harewood - was merely a distant cousin.
  My voice was muffled and with the hair that undoubtedly surrounded my whole hunched over form, I most likely resembled a distant relative of cousin It.
  Anjali Sircar, tired of room hunting, asked her distant cousin, Yash, to pretend to be her fiancé and wangled a single room at Khar.
  She looks more human now, but still behaves like her distant cousins.
  They did say they were venture capitalists from New Hampshire and sons of some distant cousin or aunt, I think.
  However, it still shares many (if not most) of the same characteristics of our distant ancestors.
  Rather, the naming system complements the kinship system in that it provides people with an easy tool to establish their relationship even with distant kin.
  Reflecting back on a day of preparation for two hours of company, I wonder about our dim, distant ancestors.
  Do they dare range this far north, leaving south Florida's brackish mangrove swamps, to court some distant cousin?
2(of a person) not intimate; cool or reserved.
his children found him strangely distant
she and my father were distant with each other
Example sentencesExamples
- He grew up poor, with a violent, domineering mother and a cold, distant father.
- Kathy is too angry and resentful to care and Josh has gradually come to grow indifferent toward his drunken distant father.
- He was distant with his daughter and didn't even bother to attend her wedding.
- He was cold and distant with everyone outside his tribe, and quiet when dealing even with his own.
- But something seemed to have changed between them, and now they were distant with each other.
- Even conditions like schizophrenia and autism were blamed on environmental factors like cold and distant mothers.
- Arliss's direction does often appear perfunctory, and his actors remembered him as a rather cold, distant figure.
- They were cold and distant with each other having had very little contact in the past two weeks.
- Her memories were of a kind and generous man who contrasted sharply with her cold and distant mother.
- They are not the ordinances of a stern and distant judge but the loving gift of the bridegroom to his beloved.
- This night they were distant and cold, displaced from the rest of the world, impartial observers of what happened here.
- The memoirs describing late nineteenth-century childhood are replete with images of cold, distant parents.
- An elderly couple holiday with their two sons, but something is clearly amiss; the mother is distant and surly, ignoring everything around her.
- My mom was distant and cold, and very uninvolved in my life.
- But the dog demon was growing colder and more distant with each passing day.
- Jack was distant, unfriendly at best, and then he even abruptly pulled out a textbook and started to read it, blocking us out completely.
- He was so distant and reserved now, but I had no idea how he had been before.
- Even normally cool and distant Daniel was trying his best to control his emotions, he was so afraid he would break down.
- Caught up in his naval background, he was distant and impersonal.
- I was just saying, if he was so close and warm at the beginning, and now he's distant and cold, there could be a reason.
Synonyms
aloof, reserved, remote, detached, unapproachable, stand-offish, keeping people at arm's length
1. 2.1 Remote; abstracted.
  a distant look in his eyes
  Example sentencesExamples
  There was certainly nothing remote or distant about her own sense of dignity.
  I snap to attention, finding myself irritated by the distant glint in her shapely eyes.
  It seemed that her features changed, became remote, distant.
  ‘It's so distant and remote, they thought nobody would ever find it,’ says county sheriff Ronnie Oakes.
  Sometimes the distant and remote are better at igniting our compassion than the close and familiar.
  She showed how to be regal without being remote, dignified without being distant and she had the loveliest smile in the world.
  Now his attention was on the distant mental strings of summoning power he wielded.
  Aria nodded and looked away, as if in distant thought.
  He thought a moment and then nodded, but a distant look had overtaken his eyes.
  Their agenda and top down style of leadership is remote, distant, and often wildly out of step with the needs of poor and working class blacks.
  On those nights, they sat on the patio together, Leon attentive, Sylvie responsive, yet distant somehow.
  The result is a series of distant, icy meditations on life and living; impossibly remote and unhealthily introspective.
  Aislinn nodded gravely, her eyes momentarily taking on a distant light.
  Kaitya nodded, her eyes were beginning to regain their glazed distant feel.
  He was still the same, attentive and distant at the same time, while Alex tried to act as if they were just friends.
  The young knight nodded, but his eyes were distant, his face drawn.
  The door opened, and the Lord nodded to me, his eyes distant and serene.
  Synonyms
  distracted, absent-minded, absent, faraway, detached, distrait, vague

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin distant- ‘standing apart’, from the verb distare, from dis- ‘apart’ + stare ‘stand’.

单词	distant
释义	Definition of distant in English: distant adjective ˈdɪst(ə)ntˈdɪstənt 1Far away in space or time. distant parts of the world I remember that distant afternoon Example sentencesExamples Those days have faded into a vague and distant past. The wormhole in effect connects two distant points in space so as to form a shortcut. A number of colonies had been established in the distant Besalius sector of space. ‘I hope I die before I get old’ sang the Who when old age seemed to be something vague on a distant shore. I get my entertainment the modern way, borne on invisible rays beamed out from distant towers, which are relaying signals from outer space. Otherwise Lagerfeld was a distant star in a remote star system. Images of those back home remit to the audience the common connectivity among populations distant in space and culture. He went silent, eyes fixed on some distant point in space, somewhere around the vicinity of my head. The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to track distant star-forming galaxies in a project part-funded from Swindon. I spotted Adrian later in the afternoon staring at the distant tree line with a look of pondering in his eyes. The cutting edge graphics engine will present you a world of 5 huge cities on earth and several distant colonies in outer space. A man in the distant field caught her attention. To get a better view of the more distant planets requires space probes. He glanced toward the distant shore and nodded. You need to have thought of almost every eventuality when landing on a distant moon in a remote corner of the Solar System. And many of the photo studios used the backs of the photos as advertising space for a mysteriously distant Philadelphia. These responses are tempting because they yield immediate gains, while their costs are distant in time and space, uncertain, and hard to detect. E-mail may often be the only method available to contact sources in remote locations or in distant time zones. This allowed ships immediate access to distant points in space. Like many twins, Minneapolis and St. Paul are closely related but geographically distant. Synonyms faraway, far off, far remote, out of the way, outlying, abroad, far-flung, obscure isolated, cut off, off the beaten track long ago, bygone ancient, prehistoric, antediluvian, immemorial literary olden, of yore away, off, apart, separated 1.1predicative (after a measurement) at a specified distance. the star is 30,000 light years distant from Earth the town lay half a mile distant Example sentencesExamples These are the people who will have to find a new role 400 miles distant from where the real nationalist action is. The NCWO have been appealing against a court ruling that the protests must take place at least 1.4 miles distant from the course. Yet it is light years distant from Indonesia's troubles in the eyes of multinational companies and foreign portfolio managers. These measures are too polite, too distant from the roiling consumer psyche to be of much use anymore. We are now three years distant from the biggest foreign policy blunder since the Second World War. Croglin Low Hall is probably the house indicated, but it is at least a mile distant from the church, which has been rebuilt. It is 10 billion miles from the sun, over three times more distant from the sun than its next closest planet, Pluto. Kovalam is several miles distant from the Temple. It may be worth noting that I'm watching the game on my computer roughly half a mile distant from the stadium. They lay not ten yards distant from the piles of beams and drywall being used to build some streamside condominiums. 1.2 (of a sound) faint because far away. the distant bark of some farm dog Example sentencesExamples Suddenly all heads turned as the sound of a distant roar echoed over the plains. Through the open window, the sounds of distant laughter drifted from the resort. I listened carefully, hearing many city sounds, the distant laughter of humans, but no vampires were following me. So we arrived at the park to find many bicycles propped up against trees, and distant sounds of music and laughter. His voice sounded like the distant boom of thunder. As I touched the handle, I heard the distant sound of running footsteps. The dragon roared again, a sound like distant thunder, and opened its mouth as if to swallow her. A distant echo sounded in my head - the echo of the person I was fifteen, twenty years ago. Something chirped, a bird, but the sound was distant, faded. The rumbling noise sounded off again, the distant sounds of the war being waged just outside reaching their ears at a delayed rate. The sounds of distant footsteps above me brought me out of my guard. The sound of distant laughter growing closer killed their argument, if it even was one in the first place. The light is fading, and the distant sounds of the city are carried on a light breeze that creates ripples on the water. Ben was busy feeding his chickens when the sound of a distant echo caught his ears. Just then, the cave sounded with the distant echo of quick, flapping wings. For a while, the only sounds heard were the distant roar of the highway outside and the tapping rain on the window. Dark clouds gathered above her head and she swore she heard the distant sound of thunder. Alyssa listened too and heard the distant sound of footsteps coming down the hall. As if mirroring my thoughts I heard the sound of not too distant thunder rumbling above that sent a shiver through me. There was a sound of distant thunder in the sinister skies above, and she slowly glanced up. 1.3 Remote or far apart in resemblance or relationship. a distant acquaintance Example sentencesExamples The fact their relationships were more distant does mean, of course, that there is still hope. Rail links that put San Francisco and LA only a couple of hours apart remain a distant dream, too. I'm now involved, with a number of linguists, in a project I helped to organize to explore very distant relationships among human languages. He has emerged from a period of unease about your and Julia's brief and palaeolithically distant college relationship to become a trusted friend. Quite often, people have a rather strained and distant relationship to their own body. More distant acquaintances come up and say, ‘Where've you been?’ Metaphor provides startling redescriptions of the world by revealing an unexpected resemblance between once distant and divergent terms. Birds with permanent roosts became the couple's rather more distant but equally delightful acquaintances. It's like the classic situation where John introduces his girlfriend Mary to his distant acquaintance Sam, and Mary ends up leaving John for Sam. When she saw only trees and the distant resemblance of the garden that was behind the house, she couldn't understand what he saw. He said the errors may have been a function of the ‘loose and in some ways distant relationship he's been allowed to have with Today’. That relationship was quite distant, and so he absorbed himself in a tiny scientific world in order to make sense of that relationship. However, they bear only a distant, very abstract resemblance to real economic activity. I keep thinking he's appointed every last close friend, family friend, political friend, or even distant loyal acquaintance of his to a job. But a distant acquaintance of mine, who has an African mother and a French father, came out with a shattering truth. The wing, landing gear, powerplant, empennage and panel have only a distant resemblance to the homebuilt's equivalents. We might have a distant relationship, but I don't wish her badly. To make matters more difficult, today neighbourhood relationships become more distant. Synonyms remote, indirect, slight 1.4attributive (of a person) not closely related. a distant cousin of the King Example sentencesExamples They tell him not to get it removed, a surgical procedure that would take five minutes according to Krishnanunni's distant cousin in town. Do they dare range this far north, leaving south Florida's brackish mangrove swamps, to court some distant cousin? In fact the commando - described as a ‘splendid man’ by Lord Harewood - was merely a distant cousin. Her father had arranged her marriage to a distant cousin. However, it still shares many (if not most) of the same characteristics of our distant ancestors. If someone asks me how I'm related to the bride or groom, I say I'm a distant cousin. Rather, the naming system complements the kinship system in that it provides people with an easy tool to establish their relationship even with distant kin. He has very dark hair and lovely eyes and if you roughed him up a bit he could pass for a distant cousin of George Clooney's on a dark night. My voice was muffled and with the hair that undoubtedly surrounded my whole hunched over form, I most likely resembled a distant relative of cousin It. By the age of five he was speaking French, having been instructed by a distant cousin in the back seat of grandmother's LaSalle. My mother and aunt visited this weekend, and we spent most of Thursday and Friday with them and a distant cousin who lives here in KC. Anjali Sircar, tired of room hunting, asked her distant cousin, Yash, to pretend to be her fiancé and wangled a single room at Khar. Even if you counted distant third cousins, our ancestors might have been exposed to a grand total of 500 people in their lifetime. The cousins were distant (what we call in Scotland ‘out-cousins’) and monied and rather flash. She looks more human now, but still behaves like her distant cousins. ‘I met a distant cousin at one of these fairs,’ said a lady. And if you tossed his distant cousin out of his house, wouldn't he mind that? They did say they were venture capitalists from New Hampshire and sons of some distant cousin or aunt, I think. However, if laws prohibiting adult incest were extended to, say, distant cousins, what possible justification could be given? Reflecting back on a day of preparation for two hours of company, I wonder about our dim, distant ancestors. 2(of a person) not intimate; cool or reserved. his children found him strangely distant she and my father were distant with each other Example sentencesExamples He was cold and distant with everyone outside his tribe, and quiet when dealing even with his own. Even conditions like schizophrenia and autism were blamed on environmental factors like cold and distant mothers. They were cold and distant with each other having had very little contact in the past two weeks. My mom was distant and cold, and very uninvolved in my life. This night they were distant and cold, displaced from the rest of the world, impartial observers of what happened here. Even normally cool and distant Daniel was trying his best to control his emotions, he was so afraid he would break down. But the dog demon was growing colder and more distant with each passing day. Arliss's direction does often appear perfunctory, and his actors remembered him as a rather cold, distant figure. Her memories were of a kind and generous man who contrasted sharply with her cold and distant mother. Kathy is too angry and resentful to care and Josh has gradually come to grow indifferent toward his drunken distant father. He was distant with his daughter and didn't even bother to attend her wedding. The memoirs describing late nineteenth-century childhood are replete with images of cold, distant parents. He grew up poor, with a violent, domineering mother and a cold, distant father. An elderly couple holiday with their two sons, but something is clearly amiss; the mother is distant and surly, ignoring everything around her. They are not the ordinances of a stern and distant judge but the loving gift of the bridegroom to his beloved. Caught up in his naval background, he was distant and impersonal. He was so distant and reserved now, but I had no idea how he had been before. Jack was distant, unfriendly at best, and then he even abruptly pulled out a textbook and started to read it, blocking us out completely. But something seemed to have changed between them, and now they were distant with each other. I was just saying, if he was so close and warm at the beginning, and now he's distant and cold, there could be a reason. Synonyms aloof, reserved, remote, detached, unapproachable, stand-offish, keeping people at arm's length withdrawn, restrained, reticent, taciturn, uncommunicative, undemonstrative, unforthcoming cool, cold, frigid, chilly, icy, frosty formal, stiff, stuffy, ceremonious, unresponsive, unfriendly, haughty, forbidding, austere, mean-looking 2.1 Not paying attention; remote. a distant look in his eyes Example sentencesExamples On those nights, they sat on the patio together, Leon attentive, Sylvie responsive, yet distant somehow. The result is a series of distant, icy meditations on life and living; impossibly remote and unhealthily introspective. The young knight nodded, but his eyes were distant, his face drawn. I snap to attention, finding myself irritated by the distant glint in her shapely eyes. There was certainly nothing remote or distant about her own sense of dignity. ‘It's so distant and remote, they thought nobody would ever find it,’ says county sheriff Ronnie Oakes. Aislinn nodded gravely, her eyes momentarily taking on a distant light. Kaitya nodded, her eyes were beginning to regain their glazed distant feel. Sometimes the distant and remote are better at igniting our compassion than the close and familiar. It seemed that her features changed, became remote, distant. Now his attention was on the distant mental strings of summoning power he wielded. The door opened, and the Lord nodded to me, his eyes distant and serene. Their agenda and top down style of leadership is remote, distant, and often wildly out of step with the needs of poor and working class blacks. Aria nodded and looked away, as if in distant thought. He thought a moment and then nodded, but a distant look had overtaken his eyes. He was still the same, attentive and distant at the same time, while Alex tried to act as if they were just friends. She showed how to be regal without being remote, dignified without being distant and she had the loveliest smile in the world. Synonyms distracted, absent-minded, absent, faraway, detached, distrait, vague Origin Late Middle English: from Latin distant- 'standing apart', from the verb distare, from dis- 'apart' + stare 'stand'. Rhymes assistant, coexistent, consistent, equidistant, existent, insistent, persistent, resistant, subsistent, water-resistant Definition of distant in US English: distant adjectiveˈdistəntˈdɪstənt 1Far away in space or time. distant parts of the world I remember that distant afternoon Example sentencesExamples Otherwise Lagerfeld was a distant star in a remote star system. And many of the photo studios used the backs of the photos as advertising space for a mysteriously distant Philadelphia. I get my entertainment the modern way, borne on invisible rays beamed out from distant towers, which are relaying signals from outer space. This allowed ships immediate access to distant points in space. The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to track distant star-forming galaxies in a project part-funded from Swindon. E-mail may often be the only method available to contact sources in remote locations or in distant time zones. You need to have thought of almost every eventuality when landing on a distant moon in a remote corner of the Solar System. The wormhole in effect connects two distant points in space so as to form a shortcut. ‘I hope I die before I get old’ sang the Who when old age seemed to be something vague on a distant shore. Those days have faded into a vague and distant past. He glanced toward the distant shore and nodded. He went silent, eyes fixed on some distant point in space, somewhere around the vicinity of my head. Images of those back home remit to the audience the common connectivity among populations distant in space and culture. The cutting edge graphics engine will present you a world of 5 huge cities on earth and several distant colonies in outer space. A man in the distant field caught her attention. I spotted Adrian later in the afternoon staring at the distant tree line with a look of pondering in his eyes. These responses are tempting because they yield immediate gains, while their costs are distant in time and space, uncertain, and hard to detect. Like many twins, Minneapolis and St. Paul are closely related but geographically distant. To get a better view of the more distant planets requires space probes. A number of colonies had been established in the distant Besalius sector of space. Synonyms faraway, far off, far long ago, bygone away, off, apart, separated 1.1predicative (after a measurement) at a specified distance. the star is 30,000 light years distant from Earth the town lay half a mile distant Example sentencesExamples These are the people who will have to find a new role 400 miles distant from where the real nationalist action is. They lay not ten yards distant from the piles of beams and drywall being used to build some streamside condominiums. The NCWO have been appealing against a court ruling that the protests must take place at least 1.4 miles distant from the course. Croglin Low Hall is probably the house indicated, but it is at least a mile distant from the church, which has been rebuilt. Kovalam is several miles distant from the Temple. It is 10 billion miles from the sun, over three times more distant from the sun than its next closest planet, Pluto. These measures are too polite, too distant from the roiling consumer psyche to be of much use anymore. Yet it is light years distant from Indonesia's troubles in the eyes of multinational companies and foreign portfolio managers. It may be worth noting that I'm watching the game on my computer roughly half a mile distant from the stadium. We are now three years distant from the biggest foreign policy blunder since the Second World War. 1.2 (of a sound) faint or vague because far away. the distant bark of some farm dog Example sentencesExamples Dark clouds gathered above her head and she swore she heard the distant sound of thunder. So we arrived at the park to find many bicycles propped up against trees, and distant sounds of music and laughter. I listened carefully, hearing many city sounds, the distant laughter of humans, but no vampires were following me. The light is fading, and the distant sounds of the city are carried on a light breeze that creates ripples on the water. Something chirped, a bird, but the sound was distant, faded. As if mirroring my thoughts I heard the sound of not too distant thunder rumbling above that sent a shiver through me. Suddenly all heads turned as the sound of a distant roar echoed over the plains. Just then, the cave sounded with the distant echo of quick, flapping wings. Ben was busy feeding his chickens when the sound of a distant echo caught his ears. For a while, the only sounds heard were the distant roar of the highway outside and the tapping rain on the window. The dragon roared again, a sound like distant thunder, and opened its mouth as if to swallow her. There was a sound of distant thunder in the sinister skies above, and she slowly glanced up. The sound of distant laughter growing closer killed their argument, if it even was one in the first place. A distant echo sounded in my head - the echo of the person I was fifteen, twenty years ago. Alyssa listened too and heard the distant sound of footsteps coming down the hall. The rumbling noise sounded off again, the distant sounds of the war being waged just outside reaching their ears at a delayed rate. As I touched the handle, I heard the distant sound of running footsteps. His voice sounded like the distant boom of thunder. The sounds of distant footsteps above me brought me out of my guard. Through the open window, the sounds of distant laughter drifted from the resort. 1.3 Remote or far apart in resemblance or relationship. a distant acquaintance Example sentencesExamples The fact their relationships were more distant does mean, of course, that there is still hope. He has emerged from a period of unease about your and Julia's brief and palaeolithically distant college relationship to become a trusted friend. It's like the classic situation where John introduces his girlfriend Mary to his distant acquaintance Sam, and Mary ends up leaving John for Sam. The wing, landing gear, powerplant, empennage and panel have only a distant resemblance to the homebuilt's equivalents. I'm now involved, with a number of linguists, in a project I helped to organize to explore very distant relationships among human languages. However, they bear only a distant, very abstract resemblance to real economic activity. We might have a distant relationship, but I don't wish her badly. I keep thinking he's appointed every last close friend, family friend, political friend, or even distant loyal acquaintance of his to a job. He said the errors may have been a function of the ‘loose and in some ways distant relationship he's been allowed to have with Today’. When she saw only trees and the distant resemblance of the garden that was behind the house, she couldn't understand what he saw. To make matters more difficult, today neighbourhood relationships become more distant. Quite often, people have a rather strained and distant relationship to their own body. But a distant acquaintance of mine, who has an African mother and a French father, came out with a shattering truth. That relationship was quite distant, and so he absorbed himself in a tiny scientific world in order to make sense of that relationship. Birds with permanent roosts became the couple's rather more distant but equally delightful acquaintances. More distant acquaintances come up and say, ‘Where've you been?’ Rail links that put San Francisco and LA only a couple of hours apart remain a distant dream, too. Metaphor provides startling redescriptions of the world by revealing an unexpected resemblance between once distant and divergent terms. Synonyms remote, indirect, slight 1.4attributive (of a person) not closely related. a distant cousin Example sentencesExamples And if you tossed his distant cousin out of his house, wouldn't he mind that? Even if you counted distant third cousins, our ancestors might have been exposed to a grand total of 500 people in their lifetime. Her father had arranged her marriage to a distant cousin. They tell him not to get it removed, a surgical procedure that would take five minutes according to Krishnanunni's distant cousin in town. If someone asks me how I'm related to the bride or groom, I say I'm a distant cousin. However, if laws prohibiting adult incest were extended to, say, distant cousins, what possible justification could be given? ‘I met a distant cousin at one of these fairs,’ said a lady. The cousins were distant (what we call in Scotland ‘out-cousins’) and monied and rather flash. He has very dark hair and lovely eyes and if you roughed him up a bit he could pass for a distant cousin of George Clooney's on a dark night. By the age of five he was speaking French, having been instructed by a distant cousin in the back seat of grandmother's LaSalle. My mother and aunt visited this weekend, and we spent most of Thursday and Friday with them and a distant cousin who lives here in KC. In fact the commando - described as a ‘splendid man’ by Lord Harewood - was merely a distant cousin. My voice was muffled and with the hair that undoubtedly surrounded my whole hunched over form, I most likely resembled a distant relative of cousin It. Anjali Sircar, tired of room hunting, asked her distant cousin, Yash, to pretend to be her fiancé and wangled a single room at Khar. She looks more human now, but still behaves like her distant cousins. They did say they were venture capitalists from New Hampshire and sons of some distant cousin or aunt, I think. However, it still shares many (if not most) of the same characteristics of our distant ancestors. Rather, the naming system complements the kinship system in that it provides people with an easy tool to establish their relationship even with distant kin. Reflecting back on a day of preparation for two hours of company, I wonder about our dim, distant ancestors. Do they dare range this far north, leaving south Florida's brackish mangrove swamps, to court some distant cousin? 2(of a person) not intimate; cool or reserved. his children found him strangely distant she and my father were distant with each other Example sentencesExamples He grew up poor, with a violent, domineering mother and a cold, distant father. Kathy is too angry and resentful to care and Josh has gradually come to grow indifferent toward his drunken distant father. He was distant with his daughter and didn't even bother to attend her wedding. He was cold and distant with everyone outside his tribe, and quiet when dealing even with his own. But something seemed to have changed between them, and now they were distant with each other. Even conditions like schizophrenia and autism were blamed on environmental factors like cold and distant mothers. Arliss's direction does often appear perfunctory, and his actors remembered him as a rather cold, distant figure. They were cold and distant with each other having had very little contact in the past two weeks. Her memories were of a kind and generous man who contrasted sharply with her cold and distant mother. They are not the ordinances of a stern and distant judge but the loving gift of the bridegroom to his beloved. This night they were distant and cold, displaced from the rest of the world, impartial observers of what happened here. The memoirs describing late nineteenth-century childhood are replete with images of cold, distant parents. An elderly couple holiday with their two sons, but something is clearly amiss; the mother is distant and surly, ignoring everything around her. My mom was distant and cold, and very uninvolved in my life. But the dog demon was growing colder and more distant with each passing day. Jack was distant, unfriendly at best, and then he even abruptly pulled out a textbook and started to read it, blocking us out completely. He was so distant and reserved now, but I had no idea how he had been before. Even normally cool and distant Daniel was trying his best to control his emotions, he was so afraid he would break down. Caught up in his naval background, he was distant and impersonal. I was just saying, if he was so close and warm at the beginning, and now he's distant and cold, there could be a reason. Synonyms aloof, reserved, remote, detached, unapproachable, stand-offish, keeping people at arm's length 2.1 Remote; abstracted. a distant look in his eyes Example sentencesExamples There was certainly nothing remote or distant about her own sense of dignity. I snap to attention, finding myself irritated by the distant glint in her shapely eyes. It seemed that her features changed, became remote, distant. ‘It's so distant and remote, they thought nobody would ever find it,’ says county sheriff Ronnie Oakes. Sometimes the distant and remote are better at igniting our compassion than the close and familiar. She showed how to be regal without being remote, dignified without being distant and she had the loveliest smile in the world. Now his attention was on the distant mental strings of summoning power he wielded. Aria nodded and looked away, as if in distant thought. He thought a moment and then nodded, but a distant look had overtaken his eyes. Their agenda and top down style of leadership is remote, distant, and often wildly out of step with the needs of poor and working class blacks. On those nights, they sat on the patio together, Leon attentive, Sylvie responsive, yet distant somehow. The result is a series of distant, icy meditations on life and living; impossibly remote and unhealthily introspective. Aislinn nodded gravely, her eyes momentarily taking on a distant light. Kaitya nodded, her eyes were beginning to regain their glazed distant feel. He was still the same, attentive and distant at the same time, while Alex tried to act as if they were just friends. The young knight nodded, but his eyes were distant, his face drawn. The door opened, and the Lord nodded to me, his eyes distant and serene. Synonyms distracted, absent-minded, absent, faraway, detached, distrait, vague Origin Late Middle English: from Latin distant- ‘standing apart’, from the verb distare, from dis- ‘apart’ + stare ‘stand’.
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