distant meaning
EN[ˈdɪstənt]US
WDistant
- Distant may refer to:
- Distant (album), an album by Sarge
- Distant (film), the North American title of a Turkish film released as Uzak
- William Lucas Distant (1845-1922), an English entomologist
- Distant signal in railway signalling
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- AdjectiveCOMmore distantSUPmost distantPREdis-SUF-ant
- Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
- 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.
- Ever since the trauma she has been totally distant to me.
- Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- God was now nothing more than a distant cause of causes; what mattered was matter, and man acting in nature. The theodicy, the master-narrative, had become secularized.
- Rashnaa nosed out Amiable Grace to finish a distant third in a field reduced to seven after the scratches of Comic Marvel and Dance to the Moon...
- When the wye switch is opened the home signal is automatically set at danger and the distant signal at caution.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of distant in English Dictionary
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