Estranged vs Distant - What's the difference?
estranged | distant |
(estrange)
Having become a stranger, of one who formerly was close, as a relative, friend, lover, or spouse.
Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.
As adjectives the difference between estranged and distant
is that estranged is having become a stranger, of one who formerly was close, as a relative, friend, lover, or spouse while distant is far off (physically, logically or mentally).As a verb estranged
is past tense of estrange.estranged
English
Verb
(head)- She estranged her husband by not talking to him for over a year.