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Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
- We heard a distant rumbling but didn't pay any more attention to it. She was surprised to find that her fiancé was a distant relative of hers. His distant look showed that he was not listening to me.
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Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.
- Ever since our argument, she has been totally distant toward me.
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Imported into a cable television system from a different market (and thus possibly incurring a copyright royalty).not-comparable
- Any determination that a particular television signal is "distant" must, of course, be made with respect to its proximity to a specific local area, which we have termed the CATV community, […]
- Finally, there will be those unusual situations where a signal is distant to part of a CATV system and local to the rest of it.
syn. distant · far · far-flung · far-off · faraway · outlandish · outlying · out of the way · remote
ant. near