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Unpersonable vs Distant - What's the difference?

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Unpersonable is a related term of distant.


As adjectives the difference between unpersonable and distant

is that unpersonable is not personable while distant is far off (physically, logically or mentally).

unpersonable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not personable.
  • * 1915 , John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps
  • By the time I had finished the looking-glass showed a not unpersonable young man.

    distant

    English

    Alternative forms

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

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
  • *
  • , 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.