English-Swedish translations for distant

• avlägsen
  Aids är inte någon avlägsen verklighet.AIDS is not a distant reality.
  Vi talar inte om en mycket avlägsen framtid.We are not talking about the very distant future.
  För bara några dagar sedan tycktes Ukraina vara en avlägsen plats.Just a few days ago Ukraine seemed a distant place.
• fjärran
  Det är ingen smått irrelevant plats någonstans i fjärran, som råkar skymta till då och då.It is not a far distant place of little relevance which occasionally comes to our attention.
  EU:s fiskeflottor seglar på alla världens hav, tillsammans med flottor från andra, fjärran kustländer.Fleets from the EU cover all the oceans of the world, as do those of several other distant water-nations.
  Detta är mycket viktigt, för Europa är fortfarande avlägset för medborgarna. Europa ligger i det fjärran Bryssel.I consider this particularly important, because Europe is still remote from its people, for whom it is something situated in distant Brussels.

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