English-Finnish translations for distant

• etäinen
  Heille unioni on etäinen ja tuntematon, vaikka he tuntevat tarvitsevansa sitä. For them, the Union is distant and unknown, even though they feel that they need it.
  Se tunne, että Eurooppa on etäinen, on todellinen ja yhä yleisempi kansalaisten keskuudessa. The feeling that Europe is distant is a real feeling and one that is becoming more and more widespread among the citizens.
  Samalla kuitenkin Venäjä on olemassa, eikä Venäjä ole enää kaksinapaisen maailman etäinen vihollinen idässä. At the same time, however, Russia is there and, consequently, Russia is no longer the distant Eastern adversary of the bipolar world that it once was.
• kaukainen
  Tavallisille naapureille EU:sta on tulossa kaukainen maa. For ordinary neighbours the EU is becoming a distant land.
  Tämä on tavoite, vaikkakin kaukainen tavoite. That is an objective, and perhaps a distant one.
  Kyseessä ei ole kovin kaukainen tulevaisuus. We are not talking about the very distant future.
• etä-
  ~työ
• kauko-
• syrjäinen
  syrjäinen sijainti

Definition of distant

• Far off (physically, logically or mentally
• Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings

Examples

• We heard a distant rumbling but didnt 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
• Ever since our argument, she has been totally distant toward me

Related words

• equidistant
• distantly
• distant opposition
• distant blue
• distant learning
• distant sound
• far; distant
• be distant
• dim and distant