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.
Imported into a cable television system from a different market (and thus possibly incurring a copyright royalty).
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, […]
Inherited from Middle English distaunt, from Old French distant, from Latin distāns.
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