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adjective

Distant adj.

Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. "One board had two tenons, equally distant." "Diana's temple is not distant far."

Far separated; far off; not near; remote; in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives. "The success of these distant enterprises."

Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner. "He passed me with a distant bow."

Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance. "Some distant knowledge." "A distant glimpse."

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

Synonyms: Separate; far; remote; aloof; apart; asunder; slight; faint; indirect; indistinct.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Distant" Quotes from Famous Books

... quiet lay upon the garden. Children's voices rose faintly on the silvery April night from the grounds beyond. Far away, beyond the station, a locomotive puffed slowly on a steep grade. The noises of the town seemed eerily blurred and distant. ...

— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson

... applied himself to his labors. She could hear his voice in the distant furnace room giving directions to Aminadab, whose harsh, uncouth, misshapen tones were audible in response, more like the grunt or growl of a brute than human speech. After hours of absence, Aylmer reappeared and proposed that she should now examine his cabinet of chemical ...

— Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... to the east. Sixty miles of length was visible. Its height, like that of the real mountains which it paralleled, diminished toward the north. The place of greatest altitude was about twenty-five miles distant from me. From my location, the clouds presented a long and smoothly terraced slope, the top of which was at least five thousand feet and may have been fifteen thousand feet above me. The clouds seemed compact; at times they surged upwards; then they would settle with ...

— Wild Life on the Rockies • Enos A. Mills

... as thou wilt; I hear, But cannot stop the bursting tear." The minstrel tried his simple art, But distant far was ...

— Lady of the Lake • Sir Walter Scott

... snow fell softly, softly; and the bare trees shook their branches in the keen air. The pleasant glow of the blazing logs lighted up the circle of happy faces, and peopled the distant corners ...

— Soap-Bubble Stories - For Children • Fanny Barry

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