Usually means: From or at a distance.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word distantly:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. distantly: Merriam-Webster
  2. distantly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. distantly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. distantly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Distantly, distantly: Wordnik
  6. distantly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. distantly: Wiktionary
  8. Distantly, distantly: Dictionary.com
  9. Distantly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. distantly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. distantly: Rhymezone
  12. Distantly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. distantly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. distantly: FreeDictionary.org
  15. distantly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. distantly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distantly: Legal dictionary

(Note: See distant as well.)

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▸ adverb:  At a distance.
▸ adverb:  In a distant manner; with detachment.

Similar:
remotely, in the distance, undistantly, away, distancingly, detachedly, over the hills and far away, aloofly, equidistantly, apart, more...

Opposite:
closely, intimately, tightly

Types:
remotely, distant, far, far away, far-flung, far-off, more...

Phrases:
says distantly, speaking distantly, more...



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Similar:
remotely, in the distance, undistantly, away, distancingly, detachedly, over the hills and far away, aloofly, equidistantly, apart, more...

Opposite:
closely, intimately, tightly

Types:
remotely, distant, far, far away, far-flung, far-off, more...

Phrases:
says distantly, speaking distantly, more...



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