Yes.
Describing someone as a "distant cousin" is a very imprecise way of saying that they are related to you, but the speaker either does not know exactly how or they are not a first cousin, but are "more distant."
close Distant
NO! That would be the children of your mother or father's cousin, right? So you would have the same great-grandparents? Too close! Too many possibilities of recessive traits in that gene pool...
YES, I am a distant cousin of him. to be more exact, around sixth distant cousin
"My third cousin is a distant relative."
yes, a distant cousin
Lice and bedbugs are from the same family, but are only distant relations.Like me and my third cousin Lucie!From anonymous commenter.
You can date a distant cousin. Some people will disapprove.
Well if if you share same set of Grandparents then there are other lot of cousins. But they share not same grandparents then they are not realated to you in Genealogy sense but however you sitll can think of them as distant realated yo you as like cousin in law.
Well Greg is my distant cousin and Gale is my distant cousin so they are related very distantly by marriage.
A distant relative would be someone who is not closely related such as a 2nd or 3rd cousin.
The adjective in the sentence is "distant." It describes the noun "cousin," indicating the nature of their relationship. Adjectives provide more information about nouns, and in this case, "distant" conveys that the cousin is not close or nearby.