Distant
Far off
Distant is a synonym for far off in great distance away topic. You can use "Distant" instead the phrase "Far off" as an adjective or an adverb, if it concerns topics such as at a great distance, having little effect on senses, extended in space or time, off-course.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- Synopsis: A human knight from a far off and distant land finds himself stranded in Equestria and sets off to complete the mission given to him by his king.
- On an even more fundamental level, the Macross landed on Earth in the far off, distant year of 1999.
Source: Zeerust Canon -
Note that many of the stories explicitly set in the 1990s and the 21st century aren't really Twenty Minutes Into The Future; they're really distant-future stories dated by a writer who didn't realize that the year 2000 really wasn't all that far off.
Source: 20 Minutes into the Future
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