Synonyms for Distant:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • distant.
  •aloof (adjective)
  • modest,
  • put on airs,
  • shy,
  • stuck-up,
  • ceremonious,
  • stiff,
  • uppity,
  • proud,
  • retiring,
  • standoff,
  • arrogant,
  • on ice,
  • Insociable.
  •chill (adjective)
  • unhappy,
  • de pressing,
  • most ungenial,
  • most uncompanionable,
  • un companionable,
  • most unwelcoming,
  • un-welcoming,
  • un-companionable,
  • un happier,
  • un genial,
  • de-pressing,
  • un-genial,
  • un happy,
  • un emotional,
  • un welcoming,
  • un-happy,
  • un happiest,
  • un-happier,
  • more ungenial,
  • more uncompanionable,
  • un-happiest,
  • more unwelcoming,
  • un-emotional.
  •cold (adjective)
  • matter-of-fact,
  • unenthusiastic,
  • matter of fact,
  • unimpassioned,
  • coldblooded.
  •cool (adjective)
  • Procacious,
  • offhand.
  •deep (adjective)
  • subterranean,
  • fathomless,
  • subaqueous,
  • inmost,
  • downreaching,
  • under ground.
  •desolate (adjective)
  • godforsaken.
  •detached (adjective)
  • laidback,
  • un committed,
  • most poker faced,
  • impartial,
  • un involved,
  • dis passionate,
  • most uncurious,
  • un prejudiced,
  • dis-passionate,
  • un curious,
  • more uncurious,
  • un-involved,
  • un-biased,
  • un-curious,
  • more unpassioned,
  • poker faced,
  • un biased,
  • more poker-faced,
  • un-committed,
  • un-prejudiced,
  • most unpassioned,
  • out it,
  • more poker faced,
  • most poker-faced,
  • spacedout.
  •different (adjective)
  • at odds,
  • other,
  • at variance,
  • unlike,
  • differential,
  • like night and day,
  • a far cry from,
  • antithetic,
  • contrastive,
  • incommensurable,
  • unequal,
  • unalike,
  • unsimilar,
  • mismated,
  • poles apart,
  • mismatched,
  • incomparable,
  • Contradistinct,
  • Contradistinctive.
  •disparate (adjective)
  • in compatible,
  • in consonant,
  • more inconsonant,
  • most unequivalent,
  • most inconsonant,
  • un equivalent,
  • in commensurate,
  • more unequivalent,
  • in-commensurate,
  • un-equivalent,
  • in-consonant,
  • far cry,
  • un even,
  • in-compatible,
  • un-even.
  •dissimilar (adjective)
  • most opposite,
  • unique,
  • march to a different drummer,
  • not similar.
  •divergent (adjective)
  • factional.
  •diverse (adjective)
  • mixed bag,
  • several,
  • Diversiform.
  •emotionless (adjective)
  • more toneless,
  • immovable,
  • stony eyed,
  • non emotional,
  • most stony eyed,
  • more nonemotional,
  • more nowhere,
  • more stony-eyed,
  • more stony eyed,
  • most stonyeyed,
  • stonyeyed,
  • most nowhere,
  • more stonyeyed,
  • non-emotional,
  • nonemotional,
  • most toneless,
  • most stony-eyed,
  • most nonemotional.
  •faint (adjective)
  • lowpitched,
  • more faltering,
  • more softened,
  • out earshot,
  • most aside,
  • more bated,
  • in-audible,
  • more muted,
  • illdefined,
  • most stifled,
  • un clearest,
  • in-distinct,
  • more aside,
  • un clear,
  • more piano,
  • in distinct,
  • faroff,
  • fainter,
  • ill defined,
  • hazy,
  • most faltering,
  • more bleached,
  • most muted,
  • most piano,
  • most murmuring,
  • soothing,
  • more blurred,
  • more stifled,
  • most softened,
  • un-clearest,
  • un-clear,
  • most bleached,
  • most deadened,
  • most muttering,
  • more deadened,
  • more muttering,
  • most bated,
  • in audible,
  • low pitched,
  • most blurred,
  • more murmuring.
  •far (adjective)
  • end rainbow,
  • more afar,
  • most miles,
  • most farremoved,
  • more bit,
  • piecest,
  • most bit,
  • stone throw,
  • farremoved,
  • far removed,
  • middle nowhere,
  • most far removed,
  • more miles,
  • most far-removed,
  • most afar,
  • more far-removed.
  •far-flung (adjective)
  • wide-ranging,
  • wide-reaching,
  • far-going,
  • far-spread,
  • global,
  • widely distributed,
  • far-stretched,
  • without end,
  • far-extending,
  • wide-stretching,
  • far-reaching,
  • wide-extending,
  • fargoing.
  •faraway (adjective)
  • indirect,
  • in the background,
  • out of reach,
  • a piece,
  • retired,
  • in the sticks,
  • in the boonies,
  • inaccessible,
  • out-of-the-way,
  • secret,
  • in the distance,
  • out of range,
  • wide of,
  • ways,
  • not home,
  • telescopic,
  • backwoods,
  • beyond range,
  • far back.
  •foreign (adjective)
  • ex patriate,
  • de rived,
  • most nonresident,
  • extrinsic,
  • more estranged,
  • far fetched,
  • un explored,
  • more transoceanic,
  • most estranged,
  • un-accustomed,
  • more expatriate,
  • ex-patriate,
  • more immigrant,
  • extra-local,
  • most transoceanic,
  • more adopted,
  • non resident,
  • more exiled,
  • un accustomed,
  • most exiled,
  • un-explored,
  • nonresident,
  • over seas,
  • trans-oceanic,
  • most expatriate,
  • more nonresident,
  • most extralocal,
  • most immigrant,
  • more nonnative,
  • over-seas,
  • trans oceanic,
  • most adopted,
  • de-rived,
  • most nonnative,
  • un-familiar,
  • un familiar,
  • extra local,
  • unfamiliar,
  • more extralocal,
  • non native.
  •formal (adjective)
  • ex act,
  • ex-act,
  • more starched,
  • straight arrow,
  • playing game,
  • most starched.
  •glacial (adjective)
  • Seclusive,
  • more seclusive,
  • most seclusive.
  •godforsaken (adjective)
  • neglected,
  • forgotten.
  •haughty (adjective)
  • Over-bearing,
  • hoity toity,
  • hoitytoity,
  • sniffiest,
  • over-weening,
  • over weening,
  • on high horse,
  • high mighty,
  • snootiest,
  • stuckup,
  • sniffier,
  • over bearing.
  •icy (adjective)
  • steeliest,
  • steelier.
  •inaccessible (adjective)
  • unattainable,
  • unachievable,
  • unobtainable,
  • not at hand,
  • ungettable,
  • unreachable,
  • Inapproachable.
  •inapproachable (adjective)
  • in approachable,
  • in-approachable.
  •incommunicable (adjective)
  • in-communicable,
  • in communicable.
  •incommunicative (adjective)
  • in-communicative,
  • in communicative.
  •incurious (adjective)
  • in-curious,
  • in curious.
  •indifferent (adjective)
  • stoical,
  • unaroused,
  • unsocial,
  • unimpressed,
  • non-partisan.
  •long (adjective)
  • outstretched,
  • gangling,
  • stretching,
  • spun out,
  • spread out,
  • longish,
  • protracted.
  •near (adjective)
  • convenient.
  •obscure (adjective)
  • unheard-of,
  • irrelevant,
  • seldom seen,
  • unhonored,
  • unheard of,
  • orphic,
  • unnoted.
  •other (adjective)
  • re-maining,
  • re maining.
  •outermost (adjective)
  • fringer,
  • outer most.
  •outlying (adjective)
  • off-lying.
  •out of the way (adjective)
  • out of way,
  • out the way,
  • out way.
  •outside (adjective)
  • out side,
  • out-side,
  • un likeliest,
  • un likelier,
  • un-likeliest,
  • un-likely,
  • outside,
  • un likely,
  • un-likelier.
  •overlong (adjective)
  • drawnout,
  • Overlong,
  • long drawn out,
  • over long.
  •remote (adjective)
  • introspective,
  • beyond,
  • god-knows-where,
  • in a backwater,
  • off beaten path.
  •removed (adjective)
  • re moved,
  • more took,
  • re-moved,
  • most took.
  •reserved (adjective)
  • self-contained,
  • more eremitic,
  • mis anthropic,
  • softspoken,
  • most eremitic,
  • de mure,
  • self contained,
  • re-strained,
  • re strained,
  • soft spoken,
  • mis-anthropic,
  • non committal,
  • re-served,
  • de-mure,
  • re served,
  • close mouthed,
  • re-tiring,
  • re tiring,
  • more reclusive,
  • selfcontained.
  •retired (adjective)
  • re-tired,
  • re tired.
  •secluded (adjective)
  • out of the way.
  •self-controlled (adjective)
  • selfcontrolled,
  • self controlled.
  •self-restrained (adjective)
  • selfrestrained,
  • self restrained.
  •separate (adjective)
  • cut in two,
  • set apart,
  • cut apart,
  • put asunder,
  • set asunder,
  • far between,
  • in halves.
  •solitary (adjective)
  • anti social,
  • un frequented,
  • un attended,
  • more eremetic,
  • more hermitical,
  • un-frequented,
  • un-attended,
  • un accompanied,
  • most eremetic,
  • un-accompanied,
  • most hermitical,
  • staggest,
  • de solate,
  • de-solate.
  •taciturn (adjective)
  • dried-up,
  • unexpressive,
  • incommunicative,
  • clammed up,
  • Incommunicable,
  • unforthcoming,
  • tightlipped,
  • uncommunicable.
  •tightlipped (adjective)
  • tight lipped.
  •unattainable (adjective)
  • un-attainable,
  • un attainable.
  •unbending (adjective)
  • in compliant,
  • in-elastic,
  • single minded,
  • hold ones ground,
  • in-compliant,
  • sticking one guns,
  • in elastic,
  • un flexible,
  • un bending,
  • in-exorable,
  • sticking to guns,
  • hold one ground,
  • un relenting,
  • re solute,
  • un compromising,
  • Unswayable,
  • standing one ground,
  • sticking ones guns,
  • more unswayable,
  • up tight,
  • most unswayable,
  • in tractable,
  • set stone,
  • standing one's ground,
  • sticking guns,
  • sticking to ones guns,
  • hardline,
  • hold line,
  • un swayable,
  • in flexible,
  • un-flexible,
  • re-solute,
  • standing ground,
  • in-tractable,
  • do die,
  • more unflexible,
  • un-compromising,
  • standing ones ground,
  • hold fort,
  • un yielding,
  • most unflexible,
  • in-flexible,
  • sticking one's guns,
  • up-tight,
  • un-bending,
  • un-yielding,
  • sticking to one guns,
  • un-swayable.
  •uncharted (adjective)
  • unidentified,
  • unmapped,
  • little known.
  •uncommunicable (adjective)
  • un-communicable,
  • un communicable.
  •uncommunicative (adjective)
  • taciturn,
  • buttoned up,
  • dried up.
  •unconcerned (adjective)
  • in sensitive,
  • selfcentered,
  • un-concerned,
  • un-troubled,
  • un worried,
  • un-worried,
  • most unworried,
  • un ruffled,
  • unbothered,
  • un perturbed,
  • un bothered,
  • insouciant,
  • un concerned,
  • un-bothered,
  • un troubled,
  • un-ruffled,
  • in-sensible,
  • in sensible,
  • more unworried,
  • most unbothered,
  • more unbothered,
  • self centered,
  • in-sensitive,
  • un-perturbed.
  •undemonstrative (adjective)
  • un-demonstrative,
  • un demonstrative.
  •unequal (adjective)
  • not uniform.
  •unfriendly (adjective)
  • ill disposed,
  • un-friendliest,
  • un-charitable,
  • more ill disposed,
  • more grudging,
  • more against,
  • un charitable,
  • more unneighborly,
  • un friendlier,
  • un congenial,
  • un-friendly,
  • more ill-disposed,
  • most illdisposed,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • un friendly,
  • in-auspicious,
  • most ill disposed,
  • dis affected,
  • more illdisposed,
  • most unneighborly,
  • un neighborly,
  • un propitious,
  • un favorable,
  • most against,
  • most ill-disposed,
  • un friendliest,
  • un-friendlier,
  • in auspicious,
  • un-congenial,
  • dis agreeable,
  • dis-affected,
  • illdisposed,
  • most grudging,
  • not speaking terms,
  • not on speaking terms,
  • un-favorable,
  • un-neighborly.
  •uninterested (adjective)
  • uninterested,
  • un interested,
  • un-interested.
  •unknown (adjective)
  • Incog,
  • Unapprehended,
  • such and such,
  • uncharted,
  • unexplained,
  • so and so,
  • Unrenowned,
  • uncelebrated,
  • unperceived,
  • Unascertained,
  • unrecognized,
  • unrevealed,
  • so-and-so,
  • such-and-such.
  •unlike (adjective)
  • dis-harmonious,
  • in congruous,
  • un-likest,
  • most disharmonious,
  • un-liker,
  • more disharmonious,
  • in-congruous,
  • un likest,
  • un liker,
  • dis harmonious.
  •unreachable (adjective)
  • un-reachable,
  • un reachable.
  •unsociable (adjective)
  • more easy going,
  • more easy-going,
  • most easy going,
  • more nongregarious,
  • un sociable,
  • un-sociable,
  • recessive,
  • most nongregarious,
  • non gregarious.
  •weak (adjective)
  • weakest,
  • unstressed,
  • reedy,
  • unaccented.
  •wide (adjective)
  • more off target,
  • more off-target,
  • more offtarget,
  • offtarget,
  • wide,
  • most off target,
  • off mark,
  • off target,
  • most offtarget,
  • in accurate,
  • most off-target.
  •withdrawn (adjective)
  • most retreated,
  • re treated,
  • re-treated,
  • more retreated,
  • with-drawn,
  • with drawn.

• a. & adv.

  •far (adjective, adverb)
  • more far removed,
  • more farremoved,
  • most ways.

• adv.

  •apart (adverb)
  • dis associated,
  • dis-associated,
  • in dependent,
  • in-dependent,
  • independently,
  • in dividually,
  • in-dependently,
  • dis connected,
  • dis-connected,
  • in dependently,
  • independent,
  • to side,
  • in-dividually.
  •away (adverb)
  • be yond,
  • forth,
  • be-yond,
  • far afield.
  •further (adverb)
  • then,
  • be sides,
  • be-sides,
  • in addition,
  • what more,
  • over above.

• n.

  •
  • someday,
  • when the time comes,
  • sooner or later,
  • in the long run/term,
  • to come,
  • later,
  • tomorrow,
  • one day.
  •
  • controlled,
  • impassive,
  • passive,
  • neutral,
  • unemotional,
  • unresponsive,
  • blank,
  • restrained,
  • time.
  •
  • hot,
  • attitude,
  • standoffish,
  • undemonstrative.
  •aloof (noun)
  • aloof.
  •apart (noun)
  • apart.
  •arm's length (noun)
  • arms length,
  • at distance,
  • arm-length,
  • re motes,
  • distants,
  • re-motes,
  • arm length,
  • at a distances,
  • at distances.
  •distant (noun)
  • far-flung,
  • extreme,
  • faraway,
  • out-of-town,
  • ulterior,
  • loosely knit,
  • nonadjacent.

• v.

  •approaching (verb)
  • coming.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • colonial,
  • preoccupied,
  • dreamily,
  • lineal,
  • outer,
  • distantly,
  • further,
  • off,
  • secluded,
  • heedless,
  • illegitimate,
  • inattention,
  • abstracted,
  • way out,
  • atavistic,
  • remotely,
  • furthermost,
  • inattentive,
  • familial,
  • detachment,
  • mile,
  • vaguely,
  • absently,
  • sequestered,
  • offish,
  • lax,
  • away,
  • illegitimacy,
  • filial,
  • neglectful,
  • motherless,
  • negligence,
  • spaced-out.
  •
  • cleft,
  • isolated,
  • kinship,
  • unrelated,
  • formal,
  • oblivion,
  • lonely,
  • furthest,
  • asunder,
  • Family,
  • old,
  • lonesome.
  •
  • neglect,
  • legitimate,
  • peripheral,
  • reticent.
  •
  • chilly.
  •
  • solitary,
  • range.
  •
  • clear.
  •
  • direct.
  •away
  • abroad.
  •beyond
  • out.
  •distant
  • unapproachable.
  •far
  • far-off.
  •unfriendly
  • dour,
  • grim,
  • unpleasant,
  • brusque,
  • icily,
  • inimical,
  • uncaring,
  • stony,
  • sour,
  • stonily,
  • coolly,
  • severely,
  • unsmiling,
  • inhospitable,
  • wintry,
  • impersonal,
  • antagonistic,
  • unsympathetic,
  • sourly,
  • disobliging,
  • roughly,
  • stiffly,
  • Cold-hearted,
  • hard-boiled,
  • severe,
  • stony-faced,
  • misanthropic,
  • nice,
  • spiteful,
  • rough,
  • forbidding.
  •unresponsive
  • frigid.

Paraphrases for Distant:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    far-off, far-away, far-flung, faraway.
  • Proper noun, singular
    faraway.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    not-so-distant, not-too-distant.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    VER, elusive, unattainable, outermost, long-distance, isolated, distal, distance-education, ancient, distance-learning, distance, afield, peripheral, different, near, long-haul, far-reaching.
  • Proper noun, singular
    POPS, distance, Distances.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    outlying, long.

Antonyms for Distant:

• adj.

  • all
    close.
  • faraway
    friendly, kind, mingling, public, adjacent, near, neighboring, warm, nearby, approachable, sympathetic.
  • Other antonyms:
    appropriate, amiable, like, agreeable, equivalent, congenial, talkative, gracious, homogenous, uniform, expansive, apropos, garrulous, comparable, outgoing, dear, pertinent, essential, similar, homological, unreserved, akin, proper, selfsame, homologous, germane, hospitable, kin, genial, related, relevant, homogeneous, analogous, kindred, Impendent, tantamount, communicative, alike, folksy, parallel.

Homophones for Distant:

• decadent, death's-head moth, decedent, distend, Distended, destined, dissident.