Literary or formal word for great distance, both physical and abstract. Rare in modern conversation; more common equivalents are 遠い or 遥か.
I let my thoughts wander to a distant land.
The realization of that plan is still far off.
far ahead; long way to go; distant
A Sino-Japanese compound of 遼 (distant) and 遠 (far). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word has been used in classical and formal writing to express great remoteness.