Distant and Faint

Distant

Distant adjective - Not close in time or space.

Faint is a synonym for distant in vague topic. In some cases you can use "Faint" instead an adjective "Distant".

Nearby Words: distance, distantly

Faint

Faint adjective - Not seen or understood clearly.

Distant is a synonym for faint in slight topic. Sometimes you can use "Distant" instead an adjective "Faint", if it concerns topics such as dim, having little effect on senses.

Nearby Words: faintly, fainted, fainting

Both words in one sentence

  • Series / Cosmos aka: Cosmos A Spacetime Odyssey Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us — there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation as if a distant memory, of falling from a height.
  • It's Quiet... Too Quiet In the also-defunct Twister...Ride it Out, the setting of the main show, with the exception of a few faint noises in the distant, is eerily silent...that is until the tornado comes in.
  • Depth Deception For decades, scientists were unsure whether these strange objects moving away from us were nearby and fairly faint, or as distant as the Hubble Law suggests and therefore brighter than anything else that we have ever experienced.
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