Dictionary Entry
distant
distant is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.
- 2adjective
Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives.
- 3adjective
Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner.
- 4adjective
Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance.
- 5adjective
Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so widely distant from Christianity.
- 6adjective
located far away spatially
"distant lands"
"remote stars"
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- 7adjective
separate or apart in time
"distant events"
"the remote past or future"
- 8adjective
separated in space or coming from or going to a distance
"distant villages"
"the sound of distant traffic"
- 9adjective
far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship
"a distant cousin"
"a remote relative"
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- 10adjective
remote in manner
"stood apart with aloof dignity"
"a distant smile"
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