Vocabulary
Distant
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
far away in space or time.
Urdu meaning
دور کی بات، سرد مہر، فاصلے پر
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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I say this despite constantly being told that the present is no different from the recent or distant past as if normalising violence against the people is a better argument than trying to deny it.
Dawn Editorials —
A long week
— 2026-04-28
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A distant tenacious Iran has two closer, supercharged allies Russiaand China.
Dawn Editorials —
Betrayal, Inc.
— 2026-04-23
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The Hormuz crisis has shown that the strategy was costlier: routing commerce through third-party hubs and paying political premiums on indirect trade left both economies exposed to the same distant chokepoint.
Dawn Editorials —
The economic connection
— 2026-04-23
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For low-income families, these costs are immediate, while the benefits are distant and uncertain.
Dawn Editorials —
Why the poor reject education
— 2026-04-01
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Climate officials have now acknowledged that drought is `no longer a distant or occasional risk` but an increasingly permanent feature of Pakistan`s environmental reality.
Dawn Editorials —
Drought plan
— 2026-04-01
Synonyms
faraway, far off, far, remote, out of the way, outlying, abroad, far-flung,
Curator example
“distant parts of the world”
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