distant — Englisches Wörterbuch

Adjektiv

1. Far off (physically, logically or mentally).

   Synonyme

   faraway

   Beispiele

   Weitere Beispiele (2)

   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.

2. Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.

   Synonyme

   aloofcold

   Beispiele

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

3. Imported into a cable television system from a different market (and thus possibly incurring a copyright royalty).

   Gebrauch

   • not-comparable

   Antonyme

   local

   Beispiele

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   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.

Adjektiv

1. separated in space or coming from or going to a distance

   Antonyme

   close

   Beispiele

   distant villages

   the sound of distant traffic

   Weitere Beispiele (2)

   a distant sound

   a distant telephone call

2. far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship

   Synonyme

   remote

   Antonyme

   close

   Beispiele

   a distant cousin

   a remote relative

   Weitere Beispiele (2)

   a distant likeness

   considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics

3. remote in manner

   Synonyme

   aloofupstage

   Beispiele

   stood apart with aloof dignity

   a distant smile

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   he was upstage with strangers

4. separate or apart in time

   Synonyme

   remoteremoved

   Beispiele

   distant events

   the remote past or future

5. located far away spatially

   Synonyme

   remote

   Beispiele

   distant lands

   remote stars