'Remote' definitions:
Definition of 'remote'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Located far away spatially; "distant lands"; "remote stars" [syn: distant, remote]
adjective
Very unlikely; "an outside chance"; "a remote possibility"; "a remote contingency" [syn: outside, remote]
adjective
Separate or apart in time; "distant events"; "the remote past or future" [syn: distant, remote, removed]
adjective
Inaccessible and sparsely populated; [syn: outback(a), remote]
adjective
Far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship ; "a distant cousin"; "a remote relative"; "a distant likeness"; "considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics" [syn: distant, remote] [ant: close]
noun
A device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance; "he lost the remote for his TV" [syn: remote control, remote]
Definition of 'Remote'
From: GCIDE
- Remote \Re*mote"\ (r?-m?t"), a. [Compar. Remoter (-?r); superl. Remotest.] [L. remotus, p. p. of removere to remove. See Remove.]
- 1. Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands. [1913 Webster]
- Places remote enough are in Bohemia. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Remote from men, with God he passed his days. --Parnell. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses. Specifically: (a) Not agreeing; alien; foreign. "All these propositions, how remote soever from reason." --Locke. (b) Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity. (c) Separate; abstracted. "Wherever the mind places itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from, all bodies." --Locke. (d) Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant. "From the effect to the remotest cause." --Granville. (e) Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Bot.) Separated by intervals greater than usual. [1913 Webster] -- {Re*mote"ly}, adv. -- {Re*mote"ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'remote'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- above all that,
- abstracted,
- acquisitive,
- alien,
- aloof,
- ambitious for self,
- ancient,
- apart,
- arcane,
- asunder,
- at a distance,
- autistic,
- away,
- back,
- backward,
- bashful,
- blank,
- careerist,
- casual,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- cold,
- constrained,
- cool,
- detached,
- devious,
- discreet,
- disinterested,
- distal,
- distant,
- early,
- egotistical,
- exclusive,
- exotic,
- expressionless,
- faint,
- far,
- far off,
- far-flung,
- far-off,
- faraway,
- farfetched,
- fat,
- foggy,
- forbidding,
- forced,
- frigid,
- frontier,
- frosty,
- grasping,
- greedy,
- guarded,
- icy,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- implausible,
- improbable,
- in a backwater,
- inaccessible,
- inappropriate,
- inconsiderable,
- incurious,
- indifferent,
- individualistic,
- insignificant,
- insular,
- introverted,
- irrelevant,
- isolated,
- lonely,
- lonesome,
- long-distance,
- long-range,
- modest,
- narcissistic,
- negligible,
- obscure,
- off,
- offish,
- Olympian,
- out-of-the-way,
- out-of-the-world,
- outlandish,
- outlying,
- outside,
- personalistic,
- poor,
- possessive,
- privatistic,
- quarantined,
- quite another thing,
- recondite,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retired,
- retiring,
- secluded,
- seclusive,
- secret,
- segregated,
- self-absorbed,
- self-admiring,
- self-advancing,
- self-besot,
- self-centered,
- self-considerative,
- self-contained,
- self-devoted,
- self-esteeming,
- self-indulgent,
- self-interested,
- self-jealous,
- self-occupied,
- self-pleasing,
- self-seeking,
- self-serving,
- self-sufficient,
- selfish,
- separate,
- separated,
- sequestered,
- shrinking,
- shut off,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- something else again,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- strained,
- subdued,
- subtle,
- suppressed,
- tramontane,
- ultramontane,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- unconcerned,
- uncongenial,
- unconnected,
- undemonstrative,
- unexpansive,
- unfamiliar,
- unfrequented,
- ungenial,
- uninterested,
- unlikely,
- unrelated,
- unsettled,
- unusual,
- unvisited,
- withdrawn