distantとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 distaunt, from Old French distant, from Latin distāns.

発音

• IPA: /ˈdɪstənt/
• 韻: -ɪstənt

形容詞

distant (comparative more distant, superlative most distant)

1. Far off (physically, logically or mentally).

   Synonyms: faraway; see also Thesaurus:distant

   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.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     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 four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.

2. Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.

   Synonyms: aloof, cold; see also Thesaurus:aloof

   Ever since our argument, she has been totally distant toward me.

3. (television, not comparable) Imported into a cable television system from a different market (and thus possibly incurring a copyright royalty).

   Antonym: local

   • 1973, Cable Television, Rand Corporation:

     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, […]

   • 1983, Gary L. Christensen, Cable Television in a New Era, page 128:

     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.

派生語

関連する語

• distal
• distance
• equidistant

Further reading

• “distant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “distant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “distant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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