distant

• distaunt, dystant, dystaunt (all obsolete)

Inherited from Middle English distaunt, from Old French distant, from Latin distāns.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪstənt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪstənt

distant (comparative more distant, superlative most distant)

1. 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.

2. Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.

   Synonyms: aloof, cold

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

• distal
• distance
• equidistant

• “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.

• Dantist

Learned borrowing from Latin distantem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [disˈtan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [disˈtant]

distant m or f (masculine and feminine plural distants)

1. distant

   Synonyms: llunyà, remot

   Antonyms: pròxim, proper

• distància
• distar

• “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.

Learned borrowing from Latin distantem.

• IPA^(key): /dis.tɑ̃/

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distant (feminine distante, masculine plural distants, feminine plural distantes)

1. distant
2. aloof

• distance

• → Romanian: distant

• “distant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

distant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of distō

Borrowed from French distant, from Latin distantem.

distant m or n (feminine singular distantă, masculine plural distanți, feminine and neuter plural distante)

1. distant, remote

• distanță

Learned borrowing from Latin distantem.

distant m (feminine singular distanta, masculine plural distants, feminine plural distantas)

1. (Puter) distant, remote, faraway

   Synonym: luntaun