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Outlandish vs Distant - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between outlandish and distant

is that outlandish is bizarre, strange while distant is far off (physically, logically or mentally).

outlandish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • bizarre, strange
  • :The rock star wore black with outlandish pink and green spiked hair.
  • (archaic) foreign, alien

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    distant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * distaunt (obsolete) * dystant (obsolete) * dystaunt (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.

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    * distance * equidistant

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