very small in scale; minute; negligible or insignificant; often used to describe how a person feels in comparison to the universe or great forces

difficult to predict or likely to fail; uncertain; tenuous; slim

faintly discernible; indistinct; misty

(literary) describing a scene that is vast, blurry, or stretching out into the distance without end

(of a body of water) vast and reaching into the distance; extending to the horizon

(variant form) illusory, vague, and with no substance; unreal like a dream or mist

Describes a scene where a wide body of water is covered in thick mist and seems to stretch out endlessly

(idiom) desolate and without a sign of human life; deserted or godforsaken

distant or remote in space or time

vast and boundless; so distant that something is blurred or has disappeared

(variant form) empty and unreal; imaginary or purely visionary

Distant and difficult to see clearly; vast and indistinct (of a landscape or visual scene)

To have no news or word from someone for a long time; never to have been heard from since.

to have an uncertain or bleak future; to not know what to do next or be at a loose end

distant and boundless; remote and vast

(literary) appearing dim and distant; misty; vague and remote

deep and far; remote and profound

extremely tiny or insignificant; remote and negligible

a type of subatomic particle in particle physics

to look down on; to think little of; to treat with contempt

(variant form) vaguely visible as if through mist; ethereal; distant and indistinct

Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS); a large particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) used in physics research

faintly discernible; dimly visible or misty; also describes music that lingers softly

so distant or vast as to be indistinct and difficult to see; vast and hazy