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Thesaurus: remote

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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  1. superl. Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
  2. superl. Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses.
  3. superl. Not agreeing; alien; foreign.
  4. superl. Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.
  5. superl. Separate; abstracted.
  6. superl. Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.
  7. superl. Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
  8. superl. Separated by intervals greater than usual.
  9. adj. located far away spatially
  10. adj. unlikely to occur
  11. adj. separate or apart in time
  12. adj. inaccessible and sparsely populated