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in the distance

ADJECTIVE

distant

Synonyms

STRONGEST

far far-flung far-off inaccessible isolated obscure remote removed secluded

WEAK

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 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

Antonyms

STRONGEST

approachable mingling public

WEAK

adjacent close friendly kind near nearby neighboring sympathetic warm

ADVERB

off

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ahead aside below elsewhere far out over

STRONG

absent disappearing removed vanishing

WEAK

above afar away from behind beneath beside divergent farther away gone away not here to one side turning aside up front

Antonyms

WEAK

close here present

Example Sentences

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It feels like a flyover, with the sea perhaps in the distance at the very top.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

The picture, which now hangs in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, offers a panorama of an alpine landscape, with the snow-covered Cordillera Occidental rising in the distance.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Taken from close to the lunar surface, it showed our planet rising in the distance.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

He anticipated that the mission would later afford him a view with the Moon in the foreground and Earth hanging in the distance.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

There, in the distance, Twitch lay on the far side, while just behind her loomed the great black-backed gull with one of its claws brushing down upon her back.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

in the distance

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