distant

Adjective

1. 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.
   • Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a...

   Synonyms: faraway

2. Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.
   • Ever since our argument, she has been totally distant toward me.

   Synonyms: aloof cold cool distant frosty hankty hard-to-get offish quiet remote reserved standoffish strange thorny touch-me-not-ish unapproachable unbending undemonstrative unimpressionable uninvolved

3. 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, […] - 1973, Cable Television,...
   • 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. - 1983, Gary L. Christensen, Cable Television in a New Era, page 128:

   Antonyms: local

Noun