distant

Speech parts

1. distant - Adjective

2. distant - Adjective Satellite

Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.

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

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

Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance.

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

remote far removed apart aloof away isolated faint indistinct out-of-the-way faraway outlying upstage far-off yonder

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close cook pally kindred about home

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distance equidistant distal

distant future distant from more distant be distant distant countries distant relative

Dantist

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. W. H. Auden

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate. Emil Cioran

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. Edward Gibbon

Better a good neighbour than a distant friend. Dutch Proverb

A distant fire does not burn. Swahili Proverb

A traveler to distant places should make no enemies. Nigerian Proverb

distannoxane distannylene distannyne distant angles distant attitude distant behavior