Distant and Lasting

Distant

Distant adjective - Not close in time or space.

Lasting and distant are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lasting" instead an adjective "Distant".

Nearby Words: distance, distantly

Lasting

Lasting adjective - Having an existence or validity that does not change or diminish.

Distant and lasting are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Distant" instead an adjective "Lasting".

Nearby Words: lasted, lastingly

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Broken Bird Boyce Avenue's "Broken Angel" has shades of this; the subject is a perfectionist young woman who suffers lasting damage from an emotionally neglectful father, and blames herself—her shortcomings are the reason he was distant.
    Source: Broken Bird
  • Tabletop Game / Eberron This results in such oddities as traveling by rail accross Khorvaire costing some 10,000 GP, and the Goblin-controlled Dhakaani empire of the distant backstory lasting longer than the entire history of human civilization on earth.
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