different between distant vs forbidding

English

Alternative forms

• distaunt (obsolete)
• dystant (obsolete)
• dystaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin distans, present participle of distare (“to stand apart, be separate, distant, or different”), from di-, dis- (“apart”) + stare (“to stand”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?st?nt/

Adjective

distant (comparative more distant, superlative most distant)

1. Far off (physically, logically or mentally).

2. Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.

Synonyms

• (far off): faraway; see also Thesaurus:distant
• (emotionally unresponsive): aloof, cold

Related terms

• distance
• equidistant

Translations

Further reading

• distant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• distant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• distant at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Dantist

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin dist?ns.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /dis?tant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /dis?tan/

Adjective

distant (masculine and feminine plural distants)

1. distant

   Synonyms: llunyà, remot

   Antonyms: pròxim, proper

Related terms

• distància
• distar

Further reading

• “distant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “distant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “distant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “distant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Adjective

distant (feminine singular distante, masculine plural distants, feminine plural distantes)

1. distant
2. aloof

Descendants

• ? Romanian: distant

Further reading

• “distant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

distant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of dist?

Romanian

Etymology

From French distant.

Adjective

distant m or n (feminine singular distant?, masculine plural distan?i, feminine and neuter plural distante)

1. distant, remote

Declension

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin dist?ns, present participle of dist?, dist?re (“stand apart, be distant”).

Adjective

distant m (feminine singular distanta, masculine plural distants, feminine plural distantas)

1. (Puter) distant, remote, faraway

Synonyms

• luntaun

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /f??b?d??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??b?d??/
• Rhymes: -?d??
• Hyphenation: for?bid?ding

Adjective

forbidding (comparative more forbidding, superlative most forbidding)

1. Appearing to be threatening, unfriendly or potentially unpleasant.
   • 1726, Alexander Pope (translator), The Odyssey of Homer, London, 1760, Volume 3, Book 15, lines 57-58, p. 100,^[1]

     What cause, cry’d he, can justify our flight,

     To tempt the dangers of forbidding night?

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, London: T. Egerton, Volume I, Chapter 3,^[2]

     […] he was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend.

   • 1922, Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home, New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1923, Chapter 28, p. 498,^[3]

     The writer of the “blank” letter begins fluently with the date and “Dear Mary,” and then sits and chews his penholder or makes little dots and squares and circles on the blotter—utterly unable to attack the cold, forbidding blankness of that first page.

   • 1988, “If You Can’t Fight City Hall, Here’s a Different Idea: Sell It,” The New York Times, 10 January, 1988,^[4]

     Its forbidding brick and concrete exterior looms over a vast, windswept brick plaza in a style architectural critics, not without admiration, call “The New Brutalism.”

Antonyms

• approachable
• inviting
• welcoming

Translations

Verb

forbidding

1. present participle of forbid

Noun

forbidding (plural forbiddings)

1. The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece,^[5]

     But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him;

   • 1920, St. John G. Ervine, The Foolish Lovers, London: W. Collins & Sons, Chapter 3, VIII, p. 228,^[6]

     All law was composed of hindrances and obstacles and forbiddings, and therefore he was entirely opposed to Law.