distant
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin distans, present participle of distare (“to stand apart, be separate, distant, or different”), from di-, dis- (“apart”) + stare (“to stand”).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
distant (comparative more distant, superlative most distant)
- Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
- 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.
- 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.
- Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.
- Ever since our argument, she has been totally distant toward me.
SynonymsEdit
- (far off): faraway; see also Thesaurus:distant
- (emotionally unresponsive): aloof, cold
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
far off
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emotionally unresponsive
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Further readingEdit
- distant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- distant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- distant at OneLook Dictionary Search
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
distant (masculine and feminine plural distants)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “distant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “distant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “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.
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
AdjectiveEdit
distant (feminine singular distante, masculine plural distants, feminine plural distantes)
DescendantsEdit
- → Romanian: distant
Further readingEdit
- “distant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
LatinEdit
VerbEdit
distant
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
distant m or n (feminine singular distantă, masculine plural distanți, feminine and neuter plural distante)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of distant
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | distant | distantă | distanți | distante | ||
| definite | distantul | distanta | distanții | distantele | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | distant | distante | distanți | distante | ||
| definite | distantului | distantei | distanților | distantelor | |||
RomanschEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin distāns, present participle of distō, distāre (“stand apart, be distant”).
AdjectiveEdit
distant m (feminine singular distanta, masculine plural distants, feminine plural distantas)