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Synonyms for distant
Synonyms for distant: remote and upstage. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for distant
Interchangeable with distant in this sense
Audited under distant's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one distant carries in that sense.
- remoteadjective, in the sense "far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name distant as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- upstageupstage is an adjective in the sense "remote in manner"
one of these comes from distant's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship
A distant cousin.
The true synonym
remote
Same sentence, swapped: A remote cousin.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for distant in the sentence quoted.
- upstage
- close
- gentle
Where distant turns up in the game
distant is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in nine other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 9 puzzles where distant is the trap
- nearbyadverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is close, in the sense "in a near or close position", and distant is one of the three tiles that lose.
- remoteadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is outside, in the sense "unlikely to occur", so distant is there to be ruled out.
- apartadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is isolated, in the sense "remote and separate physically or socially", with distant sitting one tile away.
- ellipticaladjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is oval, in the sense "shaped like an oval, especially an elongated curved path", and distant is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play distant
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so distant reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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distant carries no theme tag, so the ring starts at Foothills and widens alphabetically.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. distant carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.