Distant and Parallel

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Distant adjective - Being not of the same kind.

Usage example: a marriage between two people from very distant cultures

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Parallel is an antonym for distant.

Nearby Words: distance, distantly

Parallel adjective - Having qualities in common.

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Distant is an antonym for parallel.

Nearby Words: parallelize, parallelism, paralleled, paralleling, parallelise

The story takes place on Earth from a parallel universe in the not-too-distant future.

Source: Webcomic / The Green Eyed Sniper

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Parallel and Distant. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/distant/parallel

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