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distant

[dis-tuhnt]

adjective

far off or apart in space; not near at hand; remote or removed (often followed by from): a distant place; a town three miles distant from here.

apart or far off in time: distant centuries past.

remote or far apart in any respect: a distant relative.

reserved or aloof; not familiar or cordial: a distant greeting.

arriving from or going to a distance, as a communication, journey, etc.: I have here a distant letter from Japan.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English dista(u)nt (< Anglo-French ) < Latin distant- (stem of distāns, present participle of distāre to stand apart), equivalent to di- di-² + stā- stand + -nt- present participle suffix

Related forms

dis·tant·ly, adverb

dis·tant·ness, noun

o·ver·dis·tant, adjective

o·ver·dis·tant·ly, adverb

qua·si-dis·tant, adjective

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qua·si-dis·tant·ly, adverb

ul·tra·dis·tant, adjective

un·dis·tant, adjective

un·dis·tant·ly, adverb

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Synonyms
4. cool, withdrawn.

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Example Sentences

Skyrocketing energy prices are inflating the costs of living on the distant edges of metropolitan areas.

To finish a dissertation, you are expected to move toward distant goals with few concrete milestones.

The task of deficit reduction will fall somewhere in the distant future.

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Skyrocketing energy prices are inflating the costs of living on the distant edges of metropolitan areas.

To finish a dissertation, you are expected to move toward distant goals with few concrete milestones.

The task of deficit reduction will fall somewhere in the distant future.

Robot explorers transform a distant object of wonder into intimate terrain.

Techniques now coming of age allow astronomers to more easily photograph distant planets rather than.

They talked above the crack of distant rifle and machine-gun fire.

Incorporating the distant view and abstracting it.

He'll discover that some of the static afflicting radio signals comes from distant stars.

Frightening health news lets people replace immediate dangers with more distant ones.

Halfmann says, and preferred the deck likely to give them a bigger but distant payout.

Abandoned homesteads are hollow shells on distant hilltops.

Examine far distant worlds, even to the first ages of creation.

Distant supernovae are revealing the crucial time when the expansion of the universe changed from decelerating to.

The taxi disappeared around a distant corner in a cloud of its own dust.

While conducting a routine search for distant supernovae, astronomers observed a bright burst of.

Global aging is no longer a distant challenge looming over the horizon.

It seems that not many people on this forum know this little distant town.

Children who have grown distant from the land are likelier to sell it than to work hard to pay off inheritance taxes.

The trees at the side of the road whiz by, whereas the mountains on the distant horizon hardly move.

Why thinking about distant things can make us more creative.

The water arrived from a distant spring in wooden pipes on stone piers to the manor's cistern house.

Astronomers have spied a distant black hole in the act of creating the galaxy that will eventually become its home.

Tifft found evidence of an astonishing phenomenon: the shifts in the spectra of light coming from distant galaxies are.

Throughout the process, faculty members across seemingly distant departments thought of new ways to connect with one another.

But inflation is distant and containable, while deflation is at hand and pernicious.

Catch a glimpse of the bizarre forms life takes among our distant spineless relatives.

Three new books reveal how much heroes and even distant acquaintances influence us.

Snow-covered peaks zigzagged along the distant horizon.

The expanding light from the star will continue to illuminate more distant dust clouds, changing their appearance as it does.

Health-care workers in the rural southeast summon ambulances to distant clinics via cellphone.

Course coordinator was moved to a different position at a distant campus.

Distant will be the days when the isolation of remote villages imposed a natural quarantine on a nascent outbreak.

The researchers looked for planets that orbited in habitable zones from their stars-both in the present and in the distant past.

They were looking at exploding stars in the distant universe, and they noticed that not only.

The doorway seems to distort the perspective, making the scene beyond seem even more distant.

Another method uses an intervening star to gravitationally magnify the light from a more distant star with planets.

One conferencing system in development would project a distant speaker's face onto that of a remote-controlled robot.

Travelling to matches in distant cities is difficult and dangerous.

Students should recognize that changes to the environment in one place can often affect other, distant places.

Precursors to terrestrial life's distinctive chemistry apparently abound in the churning clouds of dust and gas in distant space.

He grew up the son of migrant farm workers for whom the days of slavery were a less than distant memory.

Their diverse ranks have come a long way from their distant and rather simple cousin, the clam.

For me, it was a brief and increasingly distant memory.

The two countries, cold and distant in the past, have suddenly become bosom friends.

Yet, for one in every five people on the planet, this promise remains a distant dream.

Astronomers are sighting new planets circling distant stars.

From here the view extends to the distant eastern bank, hazed with brown dust.

Then there was the quieter noise from distant thunderstorms.

Academic and intellectual pursuits thus had a curiously distant relation to college life".

Catching a distant glimpse of a star professor is not the same as being taught by him.

By mixing up cool deep layers of the ocean, a distant hurricane.

Distant explosion visible to the naked eye breaks the mold with double jet.

Genetics reveal these many to have been reduced to as few as sixty at one time in the not to distant past.

Small deviations in the light from the distant star indicate that a planet is orbiting the lensing star.

Again, try hard to maintain your friendships, no matter how distant they might seem.

They fear this will eventually mean returning to their distant hometowns for treatment.

Ancient shipwrecks and telltale shells bring to life epics of distant trade and a prehistoric flood.

Microlensing events reveal planets in orbits that are more distant from their stars.

Bankers hurried in, miners claimed stakes, investors sought capital in distant cities and surveyors laid out a town nearby.

Researchers can see changes over time or view the same distant objects in a variety.

It also has to go to the system office in distant city and then come back.

Distant ship horns and the bangs of coupling freight trains floated up, providing pleasing counterpoints to birdsongs.

New observations of the distribution of dark matter in a distant cluster of.

Spitzer can also peer through the choking dust in the spiral arms of distant galaxies to see where stars are being born.

TV reception falters and they can hear a distant buzzing.

It was not merely to save my library-or my idea of it, in fact-but our distant contribution to the resistance.

Looming above the town, many miles distant but still so high that it dominates the view, is a peak swept by clouds.

New telescopes could spot aliens on planets around distant stars, if they like.

Gunshots echoed all night in the hills until a distant prayer call announced it was morning.

You'll find yourself in the same place but in a distant epoch.

Scientists say quantum physics can provide a completely secure method of communication between two distant correspondents.

He and others describe climate migration as a distant issue earning an inordinate amount of media hype.

Telescope's archival images has been revealed by data miners using a new technique for spotting the satellites of distant stars.

Such an alignment would be unlikely if the particles came from more distant sources and barreled through the universe unimpeded.

Easy sleep is a distant memory now that she must contend with tens of pounds of extra girth.

As the universe expands and distant galaxies recede from us, their light gets redshifted, thus becoming less energetic.

Cast your view back to a distant wall, and instantly the afterimage appears beach-ball-sized.

It is easy to imagine her in that distant encounter-the same direct gaze, the same friendly face and flyaway hair.

Distant supernovae are revealing the crucial time when the expansion of the universe changed from decelerating to accelerating.

Earth floats forlornly through its distant outskirts.

For something so distant to shine so intensely in our sky, it must be incredibly bright at its source.

Also, seed distribution from cultivated fields to distant locales should also include native animals.

They may be halfway across the universe, but distant supernovae have caused quite a ruckus on the earth.

Observations in the not too distant future will tell us more about dark energy.

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World English Dictionary

distant (ˈdɪstənt)

—*adj*
1.	far away or apart in space or time
2.	(postpositive) separated in space or time by a specified distance
3.	apart in relevance, association, or relationship: a distant cousin
4.	coming from or going to a faraway place: a distant journey
5.	remote in manner; aloof
6.	abstracted; absent: a distant look

[C14: from Latin distāre to be distant, from dis-¹ + stāre to stand]

'distantly

—*adv*

'distantness

—n

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Word Origin & History

distant

late 14c., from Fr. distant (14c.), from L. distantem, prp. of distare (see distance).

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