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adjective

Distant adj.

Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. "One board had two tenons, equally distant." "Diana's temple is not distant far."

Far separated; far off; not near; remote; in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives. "The success of these distant enterprises."

Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner. "He passed me with a distant bow."

Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance. "Some distant knowledge." "A distant glimpse."

Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so widely distant from Christianity.

Synonyms: Separate; far; remote; aloof; apart; asunder; slight; faint; indirect; indistinct.

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"Distant" Quotes from Famous Books

... joke occurred to him, however poor and mean, Was absolutely certain that it never had been done at all— How popular at dinners must that humourist have been! Oh, the days when some step-father for a query held a handle out,— The door-mat from the scraper, is it distant very far? And when no one knew where Moses was when Aaron put the candle out, And no one had discovered that a door could be a-jar! But your modern hearers are In their tastes particular, And they sneer if you inform them that a door ...

— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various

... of —— lies, as all the world knows, about fourteen miles distant from St. Ronan's, being the county town of that shire, which, as described in the Tourist's Guide, numbers among its objects of interest that gay and popular watering-place, whose fame, no doubt, will be greatly enhanced by the present annals of its earlier history. ...

— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott

... mountains parallel to the coast, with the stipulation that if the summit of the mountains anywhere proved to be more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, a line drawn parallel to the windings of the coast not more than ten leagues distant should form the boundary. Three questions arose: What was the Portland Canal? Did the treaty assure Russia an unbroken strip by making the boundary run round the ends of deep inlets? Did mountains exist ...

— The Canadian Dominion - A Chronicle of our Northern Neighbor • Oscar D. Skelton

... is fierce, the warfare long, Steals on the ear the distant triumph-song, And hearts are brave again, and ...

— The Worship of the Church - and The Beauty of Holiness • Jacob A. Regester

... of the prairie, Dreaming, dreaming, Of the starry nights that vary, Gleaming, gleaming! You may wander o'er your country where the vales and mountains be, You may dwell in lands far distant, out beyond the surging sea. But ah! just a yellow sunflower, though across the world you roam, Will take you back to Kansas and the sun-kissed fields of home. ...

— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter

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