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Shriking vs Distant - What's the difference?

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Shriking is a related term of distant.


As an adjective distant is

far off (physically, logically or mentally).

shriking

Not English

Shriking has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

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.