distant
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle English distaunt, from Old French distant, from Latin distāns.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]distant (comparative more distant, superlative most distant)
- Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
- Synonyms: faraway; see also Thesaurus:distant
- 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.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- 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.
- Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.
- Synonyms: aloof, cold; see also Thesaurus:aloof
- Ever since our argument, she has been totally distant toward me.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]far off
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emotionally unresponsive
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Further reading
[edit]- “distant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “distant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “distant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin distantem.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]distant m or f (masculine and feminine plural distants)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “distant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “distant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “distant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “distant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin distantem.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]distant (feminine distante, masculine plural distants, feminine plural distantes)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Romanian: distant
Further reading
[edit]- “distant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]distant
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French distant, from Latin distantem.
Adjective
[edit]distant m or n (feminine singular distantă, masculine plural distanți, feminine and neuter plural distante)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
nominative- accusative |
indefinite | distant | distantă | distanți | distante | |||
definite | distantul | distanta | distanții | distantele | ||||
genitive- dative |
indefinite | distant | distante | distanți | distante | |||
definite | distantului | distantei | distanților | distantelor |
Related terms
[edit]Romansch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin distantem.
Adjective
[edit]distant m (feminine singular distanta, masculine plural distants, feminine plural distantas)
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