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# distantly

«distantly» in Mova's school dictionary: **Not closely; only slightly or loosely** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (more distantly, most distantly)

### meaning for a pupil

Not closely; only slightly or loosely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distantly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories two people who are related or linked only at a far remove

### examples

- They were distantly related. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distantly/#x1)
- The song sounded distantly familiar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distantly/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «distantly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distantly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.