distant

English

Alternative forms

• distaunt (obsolete)
• dystant (obsolete)
• dystaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin distans, present participle of distare (“to stand apart, be separate, distant, or different”), from di-, dis- (“apart”) + stare (“to stand”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

distant (comparative more distant, superlative most distant)

1. far off

   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.

2. emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings

   Ever since the trauma she has been totally distant to me.

Related terms

• distance
• equidistant

Translations

far off

Arabic: بعيد (ar) (ba3iid) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: далёкі (be) (daljóki) Bulgarian: далечен (bg), отдалечен (bg) Catalan: distant (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 遠 (zh), 远 (zh) (yuǎn), 遙遠 (zh), 遥远 (zh) (yáoyuǎn) Crimean Tatar: avlaq Czech: vzdálený (cs) m., daleký (cs) Danish: fjern (da) Dutch: ver (nl), in de verte (nl) Esperanto: fora (eo) Finnish: etäinen (fi), syrjäinen (fi), etä- (fi), kauko- (fi) French: distant (fr), lointain (fr), éloigné (fr) Georgian: შორეული (ka) (šoreuli), დაშორებული (ka) (dašorebuli) German: fern (de), entfernt (de), distanziert (de), abstehend (de) Greek: please add this translation if you can Hebrew: מרוחק (he) (merukhaq) Hindi: दूर (hi) (dūr) Icelandic: fjarlægur (is) m.

Japanese: 遠い (ja) (とおい, tōi), 遠隔な (ja) (えんかくな, enkaku-na), 辺鄙な (ja) (へんぴな, hempi-na) Korean: 원격 (ko) (weon-gyeok), 먼 (ko) (meon) Marathi: दूर (mr) (dūr) Persian: دور (fa) (dur) Polish: daleki (pl), odległy (pl) Portuguese: distante (pt) m. and f. Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: далёкий (ru) (daljókij), отдалённый (ru) (otdaljónnyj), дальний (ru) (dál'nij) Scottish Gaelic: fad às (gd), iomallach (gd) Slovak: ďaleký (sk) Spanish: distante (es), a distancia (es), huraño (es) Swedish: avlägsen (sv) Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: далекий (uk) (dalékyj) Urdu: دور (ur) (dūr) Uyghur: يىراق (ug) (yiraq) Uzbek: yiroq (uz)

emotionally unresponsive

Catalan: distant (ca)

Spanish: distante (es)

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External links

• distant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• distant in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• distant at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Catalan

Adjective

distant m. and f. (plural distants)

1. distant

Related terms

• distància
• distar

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French

Adjective

distant m. (f. distante, m. plural distants, f. plural distantes)

1. distant
2. aloof

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Latin

Verb

distant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of distō