Distant

Meaning

Far off (physically, logically or mentally)..

Definitions by Sense

1. Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
2. Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.
3. (television, not comparable) Imported into a cable television system from a different market (and thus possibly incurring a copyright royalty).

Example Sentences

We heard a distant rumbling but didn't pay any more attention to it. She was surprised to find that her fiancé was a distant relative of hers. His distant look showed that he was not listening to me.

Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.

Ever since our argument, she has been totally distant toward me.

Any determination that a particular television signal is "distant" must, of course, be made with respect to its proximity to a specific local area, which we have termed the CATV community, […]

Finally, there will be those unusual situations where a signal is distant to part of a CATV system and local to the rest of it.

Word Forms

• more distant
• most distant
• distaunt
• dystant
• dystaunt

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When Should You Use Distant?

Use distant when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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