Definition for Distantly:

• from or at a distance; " dimly, distantly, voices sounded in the stillness"

Synonyms for Distantly:

• adv.

  •all (adverb)
  • distantly.

• n.

  •
  • inaccessible,
  • apart,
  • outermost,
  • isolated.
  •
  • inaccurate,
  • imprecise,
  • wrong,
  • roughly,
  • inexact,
  • approximately,
  • broadly,
  • approximate,
  • incorrect,
  • questionable.
  •
  • neutral,
  • impassive,
  • unresponsive,
  • unemotional,
  • restrained,
  • controlled,
  • emotionless,
  • blank,
  • passive,
  • undemonstrative.

• Other synonyms:

  •adv.
  • remotely.
  •n.
  • abrasive,
  • abrupt,
  • afar,
  • afield,
  • aloof,
  • antagonism,
  • antagonistic,
  • antisocial,
  • anywhere,
  • asocial,
  • austere,
  • away,
  • back,
  • beaten,
  • belligerent,
  • brutal,
  • chilly,
  • clinical,
  • cold,
  • cold fish,
  • coldly,
  • cool,
  • coolly,
  • coolness,
  • corner,
  • dagger,
  • detached house,
  • distance,
  • distant,
  • dour,
  • down,
  • estrange,
  • estranged,
  • extreme,
  • eye,
  • far,
  • far-flung,
  • far-off,
  • faraway,
  • farther,
  • farthest,
  • forbidding,
  • formally,
  • friend,
  • frigid,
  • frostily,
  • frosty,
  • funny,
  • further,
  • furthermost,
  • furthest,
  • glacial,
  • gruff,
  • hostile,
  • icy,
  • impersonal,
  • infinity,
  • inhospitable,
  • light year,
  • lonely,
  • long-distance,
  • long-range,
  • middle,
  • mile,
  • mixer,
  • near,
  • off,
  • offhand,
  • offish,
  • out,
  • outlying,
  • prickly,
  • remote,
  • reserve,
  • reserved,
  • reservedly,
  • saturnine,
  • self-contained,
  • sour,
  • standoffish,
  • standoffishly,
  • stiffly,
  • sullen,
  • surly,
  • time,
  • unapproachable,
  • unfriendly,
  • unsmiling,
  • unsociable,
  • virtually,
  • way,
  • wide,
  • wintry,
  • withdraw,
  • withdrawal,
  • Of,
  • cold-eyed,
  • aloofly,
  • unwelcoming,
  • defriend,
  • detachedly,
  • cold-shoulder,
  • tele-.

Distantly Sentence Examples:

• The last words seemed to refer - distantly - to Leonard Octon.

• It had cost him an effort whose magnitude had left him cold and sick to greet her distantly on the rare occasions of their meeting; and many times he had been ready to throw his promise to the winds, to repudiate the horrible bargain he had struck, and to tell her plainly in so many words that he loved her and wanted her for his wife.