Definitions for distant
ˈdɪs təntdis·tant

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. distant(adj)

   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"

2. distant, remote(adj)

   far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship

   "a distant cousin"; "a remote relative"; "a distant likeness"; "considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics"

3. aloof, distant, upstage(adj)

   remote in manner

   "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers"

4. distant, remote, removed(adj)

   separate or apart in time

   "distant events"; "the remote past or future"

5. distant, remote(adj)

   located far away spatially

   "distant lands"; "remote stars"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. distant(Adjective)

   far off

2. distant(Adjective)

   emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings

   Ever since the trauma she has been totally distant to me.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Distant(adj)

   separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away

2. Distant(adj)

   far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives

3. Distant(adj)

   reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner

4. Distant(adj)

   indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance

5. Distant(adj)

   not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so widely distant from Christianity

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1. Distant

   Distant is the final posthumous album by Champaign, Illinois indie rock band Sarge. Released in 2000 on Mud Records, it features three demo versions of unreleased songs, six live songs, three cover songs, and two solo acoustic numbers by lead singer Elizabeth Elmore.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Distant

   dis′tant, adj. at a certain distance: remote, in time, place, or connection: not obvious: indistinct: reserved in manner.—adv. Dis′tantly. [Fr.,—L. distans, -tantis—dis, apart, stans, stantis, pr.p. of stāre, to stand.]

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'distant' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3293

2. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'distant' in Adjectives Frequency: #456

How to pronounce distant?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say distant in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of distant in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of distant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of distant in a Sentence

1. Octavio Paz:

   Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.

2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

   We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

3. Jeff Eastin:

   What really shocked me about New York, I have to say, are the people. I mean, I sort of—being from Colorado originally and then from L.A., there was sort of a perception that people from New York can be very cold and sort of distant. I was really surprised that that was the exact opposite of what I found. I found that people there were incredibly nice, incredibly warm.

4. Tyler Robinson:

   For the worlds where our current best explanation for their flat spectra is a planet-wide haze layer, though, our observations show that Titan's haze isn't a good analogy for whatever makes up the haze on these distant worlds, some other kind of haze, with different properties for interacting with light, could explain the flat spectrum.

5. President Donald Trump:

   You will be seeing something on that in the not too distant future, there could be very serious sanctions.

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