Distant and Next

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Distant

Distant adjective - Separated in space or coming from or going to a distance.
Usage example: distant villages
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Next is an antonym for distant.
Nearby Words: distance, distantly

Next

Next adjective - Being the one that comes immediately after another.
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Distant is an antonym for next.
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  • Video Game / Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon The player characters fought it off in the distant past, and had traveled through time to finish it off for good the next time the planets aligned.
    Source: Video Game / Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon
  • Myron Fennel of Syracuse, N.Y., failed to buy this book, and the next day his head was sliced off by a helicopter rotor and landed on the roof of a Holiday Inn four miles distant!
    Source: Now Buy the Merchandise
  • What if intelligent life wasn't on some distant star, but in the heavenly body right next door?
    Source: Lunarians
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Next and Distant. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/distant/next
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Next or Distant. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/distant/next.

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