Results for distant

Definitions of distant:

part of speech: adverb

Distantly.

part of speech: adjective

Remote, in time, place, or connection: not obvious: indistinct: reserved in manner.

part of speech: adjective

Remote; not cordial in manner.

Usage examples for distant:

• I hope the time is not very distant when we shall all meet. "Mary Wollstonecraft", Elizabeth Robins Pennell

• No one could tell what might have happened, had not a distant sail appeared. "That Little Girl of Miss Eliza’s", Jean K. Baird

• " It's like this," the man said, his eyes distant "Get Out of Our Skies!", E. K. Jarvis

• They appeared to see beyond the sun- filled valley some place of greater moment, some place far distant "The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys", Richard Harding Davis