remote

remote is an   Adverb

Definition:

[1] Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands. Places remote enough are in Bohemia. Shak. Remote from men, with God he passed his days. Parnell.

[2] Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses. Specifically:

[3] Not agreeing; alien; foreign. "All these propositions, how remote soever from reason." Locke.

[4] Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.

[5] Separate; abstracted. "Wherever the mind places itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from, all bodies." Locke.

[6] Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant. "From the effect to the remotest cause." Granville.

[7] Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.

[8] Separated by intervals greater than usual. -- Re*mote"ly, adv. -- Re*mote"ness, n.

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