Phrase Hound found 9 phrases and 7 compound words that contain distant. The most common are listed below. Open distant in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 9
- Distant future
- Distant Past
- distant signalA railway signal that cannot show a danger aspect, but provides advance warning of the aspect of a signal further ahead.
- distant starlight problemSynonym of starlight problem: The conflict between Young Earth creationism (asserting that the universe is thousands of years old) and the starlight-related measurements that show the universe to be billions of years old.
- socially distantMaintaining a certain distance between at least two people to contain the spread of an infectious disease.
- distant sequelA sequel that continues the story of an earlier work but is set much later in the same fictional timeline, often years, decades, or even centuries after the orignal.
- dim and distantOf a very long time ago, so as to be almost forgotten.
- distant signalsplural of distant signal: A railway signal that cannot show a danger aspect, but provides advance warning of the aspect of a signal further ahead.
- distant sequelsplural of distant sequel: A sequel that continues the story of an earlier work but is set much later in the same fictional timeline, often years, decades, or even centuries after the orignal.
Compound words 7
- distantialDistant.
- distantnessThe state or quality of being distant or remote.
- ultradistantExtremely distant.
- nondistantNot distant.
- overdistantExcessively distant.
- ProdistantAlternative spelling of Protestant: Alternative letter-case form of Protestant.
- subdistantDescribing gills of a mushroom that are closer together than "distant"