near vs distant vs far
Definitions
adjective
- giving or spending with reluctance
- with or in a close or intimate relationship
- being on the left side
- very close in resemblance
- closely resembling the genuine article
adverb
- (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
- near in time or place or relationship
verb
- move towards
Examples
This came out of an investigation he was carrying out into when a ternary quartic form could be represented as the sum of five fourth powers of linear forms.
He called the foiled butt "Really juicy and nearly perfect.
If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex.
Definitions
adjective
- far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship
- located far away spatially
- separated in space or coming from or going to a distance
- separate or apart in time
- remote in manner
Examples
By recording the spectra of several distant quasars whose light pierces the Milky Way, the spacecraft revealed some 50 ultraviolet-absorbing gas clouds around our galaxy.
After that you might as well drink to the peacefulness too, uninterrupted but for the clack of a distant tractor.
Hassan in frequently going to sleep in one town, to awake in another far distant, but without the benighted Oriental's surprise at the transfer, the afrit who performed this prodigy being a steam-engine, and the magician it obeyed the human mind.
