# distant
## English
### Alternative forms

* distaunt, dystant, dystaunt (all obsolete)

### Etymology

Inherited from Middle English distaunt, from Old French distant, from Latin distāns.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɪstənt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪstənt

### Adjective

distant (comparative more distant, superlative most distant)
* Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
    Synonyms: faraway; see also Thesaurus:distant
    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.
** 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC: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.
* Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.
    Synonyms: aloof, cold; see also Thesaurus:aloof
    Ever since our argument, she has been totally distant toward me.

#### Derived terms

* dim and distant
* distantly
* distantness
* distant starlight problem
* nondistant
* overdistant
* socially distant
* subdistant
* ultradistant
* undistant

#### Related terms

* distal
* distance
* equidistant

#### Translations

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### Further reading

* “distant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “distant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
* “distant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* Dantist

## Catalan
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin distantem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [disˈtan]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [disˈtant]

### Adjective

distant m or f (masculine and feminine plural distants)
* distant
    Synonyms: llunyà, remot
    Antonyms: pròxim, proper

#### Related terms

* distància
* distar

### Further reading

* “distant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “distant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “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.

## French
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin distantem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dis.tɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

distant (feminine distante, masculine plural distants, feminine plural distantes)
* distant
* aloof

#### Related terms

* distance

#### Descendants

* → Romanian: distant

### Further reading

* “distant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Latin
### Verb

distant
* third-person plural present active indicative of distō

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French distant, from Latin distantem.

### Adjective

distant m or n (feminine singular distantă, masculine plural distanți, feminine and neuter plural distante)
* distant, remote

#### Related terms

* distanță

## Romansch
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin distantem.

### Adjective

distant m (feminine singular distanta, masculine plural distants, feminine plural distantas)
* (Puter) distant, remote, faraway
    Synonym: luntaun