Distant \Dis"tant\, a. [F., fr. L. distans, -antis, p. pr. of
distare to stand apart, be separate or distant; dis- + stare
to stand. See Stand.]
1. Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance;
away.
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One board had two tenons, equally distant. --Ex.
xxxvi. 22.
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Diana's temple is not distant far. --Shak.
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2. Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place,
time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times;
distant relatives.
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The success of these distant enterprises.
--Prescott.
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3. Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial;
somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner.
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He passed me with a distant bow. --Goldsmith.
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4. Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance.
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Some distant knowledge. --Shak.
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A distant glimpse. --W. Irving.
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5. Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so
widely distant from Christianity.
Syn: Separate; far; remote; aloof; apart; asunder; slight;
faint; indirect; indistinct.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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136 Moby Thesaurus words for "distant":
Olympian, above all that, aloof, apart, apathetic, arrogant,
asunder, at a distance, away, backward, barely audible, bashful,
blank, bored, careless, ceremonious, chilled, chilly, cold,
constrained, cool, decrescendo, detached, dim, discreet,
disinterested, disparate, dissimilar, distal, divergent, diverse,
exclusive, exotic, expressionless, faint, faint-voiced, far,
far off, far-flung, far-off, faraway, farfetched, feeble,
forbidding, forced, formal, frigid, frosty, gentle, guarded,
half-heard, haughty, heedless, icy, impassive, impersonal,
improbable, inaccessible, incurious, indifferent, indistinct,
insociable, insouciant, introverted, isolated, listless,
long-distance, long-range, low, mindless, modest, murmured,
obscure, off, offish, out-of-the-way, outlying, phlegmatic,
pianissimo, piano, proud, quite another thing, regardless, remote,
removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retired,
retiring, rigid, scarcely heard, secluded, seclusive, secret,
separated, sequestered, shrinking, shy, soft, soft-sounding,
soft-voiced, solitary, something else again, standoff, standoffish,
stiff, stolid, strained, subaudible, subdued, suppressed,
unaffable, unalike, unapproachable, unclear, uncompanionable,
unconcerned, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unequal, unexpansive,
unfriendly, ungenial, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved,
unlike, unmindful, unsimilar, various, weak, weak-voiced,
whispered, withdrawn
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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