Distant is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DISTANT in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• far off or apart
• far away in space or time
• (after a measurement) at a specified distance
• (of a sound) faint because far away
• remote or far apart in resemblance or relationship
• (of a person) not closely related
• (of a person) not intimate; cool or reserved
• not paying attention; remote
• Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.
• Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives.
• Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner.
• Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance.
• Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so widely distant from Christianity.
• separated in space or coming from or going to a distance
• far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship
• remote in manner
• separate or apart in time
• located far away spatially
• far apart

Words related to DISTANT

distantly13 distantness12

Words that contain DISTANT

distantly13 distantness12 equidistant21 ultradistant13 distantnesses14 equidistantly26

How to use DISTANT in a sentence

• Nothing was to be seen, save the grey vista of dreary, tangled bushes and trees, extending to the distant plantation.
• And the lights, of course, could only have been the distant flames of the candles, I had left burning.
• Wilton used occasionally to go into the city, a few miles distant, upon business.
• Very early in the morning I was awakened by what sounded like a distant scream.
• Duckett sat outside the Swan and Bottle Inn, Holemouth, a small port forty miles distant from Biddlecombe.
• It is represented that some provisions in the law which establishes the post-office operate, in experiment, against the transmission of newspapers to distant parts of the country.
• Then finally, far, far below there came to their ears the sound of a distant splash.
• Far away to the eastward, a little south of east perhaps, I could see the hills that hid Wepener, distant about eighteen miles from the Boer centre.
• We then proceeded on a western course for two and a half miles, when we met the hunters sent by Captain Clarke from the village, seven and a half miles distant, with provisions.
• If a member of the executive or legislature does wrong, the day is never far distant when the people will remove him.
• I meant to have died away from here, and I hoped to hold her in my arms in a distant grave.
• Once he picked her up as one would pick up a child to show it some distant object through the window.
• The reservation was in sight, though it lay several miles distant.
• That paper was signed and sealed in the palace of the Alhambra, not far distant from Cadiz, and still nearer to Seville, whither Vespucci removed soon after.
• Because, as man, He is distant both from God, by nature, and from man by dignity of both grace and glory.
• The wind came fresh and fair about ten, when we directed our course towards the distant bluff.
• Every warrior in the village takes his turn at stated times, to mount an elevation where he stands, like a statue, watching the distant hills for their ancient foes.
• A coarser work, theatrical scenes for instance, painted for distant effect, must be seen accordingly, if you would secure pleasurable emotions.
• After her marriage she moved to a distant city and I did not see her for about four years.
• Accordingly, preparations were made to go to the distant lake.
• Her father remained in a distant station in India, and was seldom heard of.
• His eyes fixed themselves apparently upon some distant object.
• The distant country, bays, and points, are for the most part delightfully painted.
• It is not clear to the distant spectator by what aperture Mr.
• He decided to leave home and go to Fort Leavenworth, four miles distant.
• Our parents died, and distant relatives, living far away from our home, took charge of my sister and me.
• The lake from which the city takes its name is about twenty miles distant from the latter, by a good road across the level valley-bottom.

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