distant

• distaunt (obsolete)
• dystant (obsolete)
• dystaunt (obsolete)

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”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪstənt/

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distant (comparative more distant, superlative most distant)

1. Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

     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.

2. Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.

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

• (far off): faraway; see also Thesaurus:distant
• (emotionally unresponsive): aloof, cold

• distance
• equidistant

• distant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• distant in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• distant at OneLook Dictionary Search

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distant (masculine and feminine plural distants)

1. distant

• distància
• distar

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

1. distant
2. aloof

• “distant” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

distant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of distō

From Latin distāns, present participle of distō, distāre (“stand apart, be distant”).

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

1. (Puter) distant, remote, faraway

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