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/ˈdɪstənt/
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ˈdɪstənt
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Adjective
Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
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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.
Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.
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Ever since our argument, she has been totally distant toward me.
Imported into a cable television system from a different market (and thus possibly incurring a copyright royalty).
Usage- not-comparable
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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.
Adjective
separated in space or coming from or going to a distance
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distant villages
the sound of distant traffic
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a distant sound
a distant telephone call
far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship
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a distant cousin
a remote relative
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a distant likeness
considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics
remote in manner
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stood apart with aloof dignity
a distant smile
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he was upstage with strangers
separate or apart in time
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distant events
the remote past or future
located far away spatially
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distant lands
remote stars