DISTANTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does distantly mean? 

• DISTANTLY (adverb)
  The adverb DISTANTLY has 1 sense:

1. from or at a distance

  Familiarity information: DISTANTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISTANTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

From or at a distance

Context example:

dimly, distantly, voices sounded in the stillness

Pertainym:

distant (separated in space or coming from or going to a distance)

 Context examples 

Perhaps, if particularly questioned, she might just give an idea—just distantly hint at it—but not more.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"What we found is astonishing: introgression even among species that are distantly related. 'Species' are simply not what we thought they were, and now we have the data to show that."

(Study reveals surprising amount of gene flow among butterfly species, National Science Foundation)

In fashion distantly resembling the way men look upon the gods they create, so looked White Fang upon the man-animals before him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

We said nothing of Emily by name, but distantly referred to her more than once.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Distantly related endogenous sequences are found in birds and mammals.

(Alpharetrovirus, NCI Thesaurus)

Yet, for a long time, I treated you distantly, and sought your company rarely.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Further comparative studies focusing on other distantly related land plants and their aquatic algal predecessors should reveal even more information about the evolution and role of these vital gene families.

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)

The wealth of information from the skeleton indicates that it was distantly related to other known African titanosaurs, except for some interesting similarities with another dinosaur, Malawisaurus, from just across the Tanzania-Malawi border.

(New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail offers clues to evolution of Africa's ecosystems, National Science Foundation)

The microbes may be distantly related to the arsenic-breathing microbes found in hot springs and in certain contaminated sites on land.

(Arsenic-breathing microbes discovered in the tropical Pacific Ocean, National Science Foundation)

At 6 weeks after birth, in breastfed babies, Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis was by far the most abundant bacterium overall as well as being the most abundant member of the Bifidobacterium genus, followed distantly by Bifidobacterium breve and Bifidobacterium biifdum.

(Gut Bacteria from Breastfeeding Linked to Improved Infant Response to Vaccines, U.S. Department of Agriculture)