Distant vs Reserved - What's the difference?
distant | reserved |
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.
(reserve)
(comparable) Slow to reveal emotion or opinions.
(not comparable) Set aside for the use of a particular person or party.
As adjectives the difference between distant and reserved
is that distant is far off (physically, logically or mentally) while reserved is slow to reveal emotion or opinions.As a verb reserved is
past tense of reserve.distant
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Alternative forms
* distaunt (obsolete) * dystant (obsolete) * dystaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)External links
* * * ----reserved
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- He was a quiet, reserved person.
- I'm sorry, sir, but these are reserved seats.