Enter a word or phrase in any language 👆
Language:
Translation and analysis of words by ChatGPT artificial intelligence
On this page you can get a detailed analysis of a word or phrase, produced by the best artificial intelligence technology to date:
- how the word is used
- frequency of use
- it is used more often in oral or written speech
- word translation options
- usage examples (several phrases with translation)
- etymology
What (who) is distant - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Distant (disambiguation); Distant (song)
Distant
·adj Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance.
II. Distant ·adj Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.
III. Distant ·adj Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so widely distant from Christianity.
IV. Distant ·adj Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner.
V. Distant ·adj Far separated; far off; not near; remote;
- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives.
distant
¦ adjective
1. far away in space or time.
at a specified distance: the town lay half a mile distant.
(of a sound) faint because far away.
2. remote or far apart in resemblance or relationship.
(of a person) not closely related: a distant cousin.
3. cool or reserved.
not paying attention; abstracted: a distant look.
Derivatives
distantly adverb
Origin
ME: from L. distant-, distare 'stand apart'.
distant
a.
1.
Remote, far.
2.
Reserved, frigid, cold, cool, stiff, uncordial.
3.
Slight, faint, indirect, indistinct, obscure.
Wikipedia
Distant
Distant may refer to:
- Distant (band) is a deathcore band from Europe
- Distant (album), an album by Sarge, or the title track
- Distant (film), the North American title of a Turkish film released as Uzak
- William Lucas Distant (1845–1922), an English entomologist
- Distant signal in railway signalling
- "Distant", a 2018 song by Jaden Smith from The Sunset Tapes: A Cool Tape Story
- Distant, an upcoming film directed by Will Speck and Josh Gordon.
Examples of use of distant
1. The other victims Palestinians are considered foreign and distant; so distant that justice is only rarely extended to them.
2. Downtown, communication was minimal, leadership distant.
3. Imagine, for example, that you had a distant schoolfriend called Norman. (I, for the record, did not have a distant schoolfriend called Norman.
4. There is also a fundamental difference between the American and the Israeli "allure of retreat." America is geographically distant from Iraq and chronologically distant from Vietnam.
5. "I wish we could still race for the title but that‘s a distant, distant hope after this race," Schumacher told Germany‘s Bild newspaper on Monday.