Thesaurus: remote
Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
Related headwords
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Definitions
- superl. Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
- superl. Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses.
- superl. Not agreeing; alien; foreign.
- superl. Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.
- superl. Separate; abstracted.
- superl. Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.
- superl. Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
- superl. Separated by intervals greater than usual.
- adj. located far away spatially
- adj. unlikely to occur
- adj. separate or apart in time
- adj. inaccessible and sparsely populated