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distant
adjective as in faraway
Weak matches
- a piece
- abroad
- abstracted
- apart
- arm's length
- asunder
- away
- backwoods
- beyond range
- far back
- farther
- further
- in the background
- in the boonies
- in the distance
- in the sticks
- indirect
- middle of nowhere
- not home
- out of earshot
- out of range
- out of reach
- out-of-the-way
- outlying
- retired
- secret
- separate
- sequestered
- telescopic
- unapproachable
- ways
- wide of
- yonder
adjective as in aloof
Example Sentences
In an attempt to search for distant planets around red dwarfs, a team of researchers from the University of Chicago in the United States, developed a special instrument called MAROON-X.
Many of these are recent highfliers with distant visions of profits.
Opinion polls show the party in a distant third in the popularity stakes.
Bombing electricity generation, transmission and fuel was a distant third in tangible effects on Germany and Japan’s war efforts.
The hard part, and the costly part, was building out the infrastructure needed to link distant cities and millions of homes and offices.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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