DISTANT vs AWAY: ADJECTIVE
- Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings
- Far off (physically, logically or mentally)
- Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant.
- Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance.
- Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty.
- Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection
- Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.
- Separate or apart in time
- Far distant in space
- Separated in space or time or coming from or going to a distance
- Far apart in relevance or relationship
- Aloof or chilly.
- Remote in manner
- Separate or apart in space.
- Far removed; remote.
- Coming from or going to a distance.
- Far removed or apart in time.
- Far apart in relationship.
- Minimally similar.
- Far removed mentally.
- Located far away spatially
- Far distant in time
- Absent.
- Distant, as in space or time.
- Played on an opponent's field or grounds.
- In golf, having the ball lying farthest from the hole and properly playing first among competitors.
- Out.
- (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter
- Used of an opponent's ground
DISTANT vs AWAY: ADVERB
- N/A
- Freely; at will.
- Continuously; steadily.
- Absent; gone; at a distance.
- Aside; off; in another direction.
- From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
- By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come away; begone; take away.
- On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.
- Bear, abide.
- Signifies, take him away.
- To carry off.
- Come away; go away; take away.
- Without restraint.
- From a place; hence.
- Freely or at will
- So as to be removed or gotten rid of
- In or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping)
- In a different direction
- Indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily
- Out of existence
- From one's possession
- From a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete)
- Out of existence or notice.
- At a distance in space or time
- In reserve; not for immediate use
- From a particular thing or place.
- At or to a distance in space or time.
- At or by a considerable interval.
- In a different direction; aside.
- On the way.
- In or into storage or safekeeping.
- So as to remove, separate, or eliminate.
- Out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts)
DISTANT vs AWAY: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To keep separate; distinguish.
- Standing or being apart from a given point or place; situated at a different point in space, or, by extension, in time; separated by a distance: as, a point a line or a hair's-breadth distant from another; Saturn is estimated to be about 880,000,000 miles distant from the sun.
- Remote; far off or far apart in space, time, connection, prospect, kind, degree, sound, etc.: as, distant stars; a distant period; distant relatives; a distant hope; a distant resemblance.
- Specifically
- In entomology: Thinly placed or scattered: as, distant punctures, striæ, spines, etc.: opposed to close, contiguous, etc.
- Widely separated, or more separated than usual: opposed to approximate: as, distant eyes (widely separated at the base); distant legs or antennæ.
- Separated by an incisure or joint, as the head and thorax of a beetle.
- Indirect; not obvious or plain.
- Not cordial or familiar; characterized by haughtiness, coldness, or reserve; cool; reserved; shy: as, distant manners.
- Synonyms Removed. Cool, cold, haughty, frigid.
- On; continuously; steadily; without interruption: as, he worked away; he kept pegging away; and hence often as an intensive: as, to fire away, eat away, laugh away, snore away.
- Gone; vanished; departed: as, here's a health to them that's away.
- From one state or condition to another; out of existence; to an end; to nothing: as, to pass, wear, waste, fade, pine, or die away; continual dropping wears away stone; the image soon faded away; the wind died away at sunset; she pined away with consumption.
- At or to such a distance; distant; off: as, the village is six miles away.
- From this or that direction; in another or the other direction: as, turn your eyes away; he turned away.
- From one's immediate presence, attention, or use; aside: as, put or lay away your work; put away your fears; the things were laid away for the summer.
- From one's possession or keeping: as, to give away one's books or money; throw away a worn-out or discarded thing.
- Removed; apart; remote: as, away from the subject.
- From contact or adherence; off: as, to clear away obstructions; cut away the broken spars.
- From one's own or accustomed place; absent: as, he is away from home; I found him away on a vacation.
- Often used elliptically, with a verb (as go, get) suppressed, and simulating an imperative: as, (go) away! (get) away! we must away; whither away so fast?
- On the way; onward; on; along: as, come away.
- From this or that place; off: as, to go, run, flee, or sail away.
- Not present
- Not present; having left
- Indicating continuing action
- Continuously or steadily
- In reserve
- Not for immediate use
- Right away, straightway; at once; immediately; forthwith.
- By far.
- Far away, far and away. At a great distance.
- Having left
- Away back, far back; long ago: as, away back in the years before the war; away back in 1844. [Colloq. often way back.]
DISTANT vs AWAY: RELATED WORDS
- Out of town, Nonadjacent, Ulterior, Removed, Loosely knit, Extreme, Reserved, Yon, Deep, Away, Yonder, Remote, Far, Aloof, Faraway
- Ahead, Back, Down, Apart, Inaccurate, By, Departed, Absent, Gone, Forth, Distant, Outside, Aside, Off, Out
DISTANT vs AWAY: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Nonadjacent, Far flung, Ulterior, Removed, Loosely knit, Extreme, Reserved, Yon, Deep, Away, Yonder, Remote, Far, Aloof, Faraway
- Ahead, Back, Down, Apart, Inaccurate, By, Departed, Absent, Gone, Forth, Distant, Outside, Aside, Off, Out
DISTANT vs AWAY: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Are Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley Distant Relatives?
- Your best friend is suddenly cool and distant.
- It is further classified under two distant bandings.
- Distant screeches, perhaps a crow of some kind.
- New Bloomfield, Millerstown, and other equally distant points.
- Take a distant point in Australia and a distant point in Oceania.
- Distant site billing and reimbursement The distant site is the location where the specialist rendering the professional service is located.
- If beginning is way off in distant past, then end is easier to view as distant future.
- There will also be access to the movement for any changes in the distant, distant future.
- Distant limes are like distant vain that build it.
- So this one might move away like that, and the one that I circled in the orange might move away like this.
- Her running away is worrisome and I asked her to call me if she runs away, and let me know that she is okay.
- Refer to the Time Away section of the Employee Handbook for more information about the appropriate uses of time away.
- Again you are trying to keep the goal money away from your other costs and away from your ability to easily spend it.
- Staying away from cliques and FAR away from gossip and trash talking.
- When you commit a third violent crime, you will be put away and put away for good.
- He was called away from Second Continental Congress to investigate potential riots by loyalists and was still away as the vote for independence approached.
- She twisted away to turn off the shower and then pushed the curtains away.
- This is true for neighbors that are a single hop away or multiple hops away.
- SMB being added was not an indication of AFP support going away right away.
DISTANT vs AWAY: QUESTIONS
- Are faultlines more or less distant from each other?
- Is Distant Worlds 2 too complicated to handle manually?
- Why is my friend with benefits becoming so distant?
- What is the main channel connecting distant countries?
- Why would my boyfriend suddenly become emotionally distant?
- Are there any distant metastases of ovarian cancer?
- How do emotionally distant parents affect an adult?
- Does Tamron offer longer zooms for distant subjects?
- Why do Aquarius men become distant in relationships?
- Is your husband distant or emotionally unavailable?
- Does Vaseline keep squirrels away from bird feeders?
- Do masculine men pull away from intimate relationships?
- Does antisocial personality disorder go away with age?
- When does gestational diabetes go away after pregnancy?
- Is technology taking away our moral responsibility?
- Can diabetic neuropathy go away without medication?
- Does gestational hypertension go away with pregnancy?
- Why do we push people away before they push us away?
- How can I give away household items during curbside give away weekend?
- Which is correct " while away the time " or " wile away "?