Tra từ distant - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

dis·tant BrE [ˈdɪstənt] NAmE [ˈdɪstənt] adjective
1. 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).
2. ~ (from sth) not like sth else
Syn: ↑remote
•Their life seemed utterly distant from his own.
3. only before noun (of a person)related to you but not closely
•a distant cousin/aunt/relative
4. not friendly; not wanting a close relationship with sb
•Pat sounded very cold and distant on the phone.
•He became emotionally distant from his friends and family after the illness.
5. not paying attention to sth but thinking about sth completely different
•There was a distant look in her eyes; her mind was obviously on something else.
Idioms: ↑distant past ▪ ↑in the not too distant future
Derived Word: ↑distantly

Word Origin:
[distant distantly] late Middle English: from Latin distant- ‘standing apart’, from the verb distare, from dis- ‘apart’ + stare ‘stand’.

Example Bank:
•He felt oddly distant from her.
•In the not too distant future, we may witness the cloning of human beings.
•It was only a few miles away but it seemed unimaginably distant.
•The medieval mind can seem impossibly distant.
•The sound of the engine was growing more and more distant.
•The stars are more distant from the earth than the sun.
•Their relationship has grown increasingly distant in recent years.
•These sites were often several miles distant from each other.
•When they met, he was very cold and distant.
•geographically distant areas of the world
•in far distant lands
•stories from the dim and distant past
•He seemed distant and distracted.
•Pat sounded very distant on the phone.
•Peace was just a distant hope.
•We will be moving house in the not too distant future.