Слово англійською: distant
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Переклад distant українською: віддалений, далекий, ~ voyages — подорожі в далекі країни, ~ relation — далекий родич, що знаходиться на відстані, 10 miles ~ from London — на відстані десяти миль від Лондона, рідкий (про зуби), спрямований вдалечінь, слабкий, легкий, невловимий, стриманий, сухий, холодний (про ставлення)
Детальний опис
distant
adjective /ˈdɪstənt/
- far away in space or time
- the distant sound of music
- distant stars/planets
- The time we spent together is now a distant memory.
- (formal) The airport was about 20 kilometres distant.
- a star 30 000 light years distant from the Earth
- (figurative) Peace was just a distant hope (= not very likely).
- distant (from something) not like something else synonym remote
- Their life seemed utterly distant from his own.
- The medieval mind can seem impossibly distant.
- [only before noun] (of a person) related to you but not closely
- a distant cousin/aunt/relative
- not friendly; not wanting a close relationship with somebody
- Pat sounded very cold and distant on the phone.
- He became emotionally distant from his friends and family after the illness.
- not paying attention to something but thinking about something completely different
- There was a distant look in her eyes; her mind was obviously on something else.
- He seemed distant and distracted.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin distant- ‘standing apart’, from the verb distare, from dis- ‘apart’ + stare ‘stand’.
Idioms the (dim and) distant past
- a long time ago
- stories from the dim and distant past
- In the distant past this land was covered in forests.
in the not too distant future
- not a long time in the future but fairly soon
- I hope we’ll see each other again in the not too distant future.
Extra Examples- In the not too distant future, we may witness the cloning of human beings.
- We will be moving house in the not too distant future.