Word Definition

Remote

  1. Not agreeing; alien; foreign.
  2. Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.
  3. Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.
  4. Separate; abstracted.
  5. Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses.
  6. Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
  7. Separated by intervals greater than usual.
  8. Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.

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