distant

Adjective

• Far away in space or time; remote.
• 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"
• far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship
  • "a distant cousin"
  • "a distant likeness"

Adjective Satellite

• remote in manner
  • "a distant smile"
• separate or apart in time
  • "distant events"
• located far away spatially
  • "distant lands"

Adj

• Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
• Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.
• Imported into a cable television system from a different market (and thus possibly incurring a copyright royalty).

Examples

• Ever since our argument, she has been totally distant toward me.
• 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.
• Winning the tournament felt like a DISTANT dream until my last, high-scoring word.

Synonyms

aloof, remote, removed, upstage, cold, cool, distant, far, far-flung, far-off, faraway, frosty, hankty, hard-to-get, offish, out of the way, outlandish, outlying, quiet, reserved, standoffish, strange, thorny, touch-me-not-ish, unapproachable, unbending, undemonstrative, unimpressionable, uninvolved

Antonyms

close, local, near

Related Words

distal, distance, equidistant