distant: translation
adj.
1 far away in space
VERBS
▪ be, sound
▪ become, grow
▪ The sound of the engine was growing more and more distant.
ADVERB
▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.
▪ far (literary)
▪ relatively
▪ increasingly
▪ geographically, physically
▪ geographically distant areas of the world
PREPOSITION
▪ from
▪ The stars are more distant from the earth than the sun.
PHRASES
▪ two miles distant, three days distant, etc.
▪ These sites were often several miles distant from each other.
2 far away in time
VERBS
▪ be
ADVERB
▪ impossibly
▪ The medieval mind can seem impossibly distant.
▪ historically
PHRASES
▪ in the far distant future
▪ in the not too distant future, in the not too distant past
▪ In the not too distant future, we may witness the cloning of human beings.
▪ the dim and distant past (BrE)
▪ stories from the dim and distant past
3 not friendly/not paying attention
VERBS
▪ be, feel, look, seem, sound
▪ He felt oddly distant from her.
▪ become, grow
▪ remain
▪ find sb
ADVERB
▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.
▪ increasingly
▪ Their relationship has grown increasingly distant in recent years.
▪ a little, slightly, etc.
▪ oddly, strangely
▪ Even his children found him strangely distant and impersonal.
▪ emotionally
PHRASES
▪ cold and distant
▪ When they met, he was very cold and distant.
Distant is used with these nouns: ↑ancestor, ↑bell, ↑corner, ↑country, ↑cousin, ↑descendant, ↑dream, ↑drone, ↑echo, ↑explosion, ↑father, ↑future, ↑galaxy, ↑gleam, ↑gunfire, ↑hill, ↑hillside, ↑hope, ↑horizon, ↑kin, ↑land, ↑look, ↑memory, ↑mountain, ↑murmur, ↑object, ↑past, ↑peak, ↑planet, ↑relation, ↑relationship, ↑relative, ↑roar, ↑rumble, ↑shore, ↑shout, ↑siren, ↑sound, ↑star, ↑thunder, ↑voice, ↑wail