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DISTANT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Located far away spatially
Example:
remote stars
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
far (located at a great distance in time or space or degree)
Derivation:
distance (the property created by the space between two objects or points)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Separate or apart in time
Example:
the remote past or future
Synonyms:
distant; remote; removed
Classified under:
Similar:
far (located at a great distance in time or space or degree)
Derivation:
distance (the interval between two times)
distance (a remote point in time)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Separated in space or coming from or going to a distance
Example:
a distant telephone call
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
deep (very distant in time or space)
extreme (most distant in any direction)
far-flung (remote)
long-distance (covering a long distance)
nonadjacent (not adjacent; not next)
out-of-town (happening in or being of another town or city)
yon; yonder (distant but within sight ('yon' is dialectal))
Also:
far (located at a great distance in time or space or degree)
Attribute:
distance (the property created by the space between two objects or points)
Antonym:
close (at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other)
Derivation:
distance (a remote point in time)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship
Example:
considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics
Synonyms:
distant; remote
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
faraway (far removed mentally)
loosely knit (having only distant social or legal ties)
removed (separated in relationship by a given degree of descent)
ulterior (beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote)
Antonym:
close (close in relevance or relationship)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Remote in manner
Example:
he was upstage with strangers
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
reserved (marked by self-restraint and reticence)
Derivation:
distance (indifference by personal withdrawal)
Context examples:
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century astronomers called them the name because through small telescopes they resembled the disks of the distant planets Uranus and Neptune.
(Hubble Views a Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star, NASA)
Planet Nine's orbital influence would explain why these bodies from the distant Kuiper Belt end up "polluting" the inner Kuiper Belt.
(The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner, NASA)
This unique system hints at what our own Solar System might look like in the distant future.
(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)
Called MAMBO-9, it's the most distant, dusty, star-forming galaxy that has ever been observed without the help of a gravitational lens.
(ALMA spots most distant dusty galaxy hidden in plain sight, National Science Foundation)
Two of the woodmen and three of the laborers drank their portions off hurriedly and trooped off together, for their homes were distant and the hour late.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They say that away down in the village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the sleepers from their beds.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We could hear the distant howling of wolves.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Perhaps I shall get the credit also at some distant day, when I permit my zealous historian to lay out his foolscap once more—eh, Watson?
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Hence, no doubt the bond that united him to Mr. Richard Enfield, his distant kinsman, the well-known man about town.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I believe I may have heard some whisper of that distant thought, in the old unhappy loss or want of something never to be realized, of which I had been sensible.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
