Distant vs Nonchalant - What's the difference?
distant | nonchalant | Related terms |
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.
Casually calm and relaxed.
Indifferent; unconcerned; behaving as if detached.
As adjectives the difference between distant and nonchalant
is that distant is far off (physically, logically or mentally) while nonchalant is casually calm and relaxed.distant
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Alternative forms
* distaunt (obsolete) * dystant (obsolete) * dystaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)External links
* * * ----nonchalant
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Adjective
(en adjective)- We handled the whole frenetic situation with a nonchalant attitude.
- He is far too nonchalant about such a serious matter.