REMOTE

Definitions

1. 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. 2. Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses. Specifically:
3. 3. Not agreeing; alien; foreign. "All these propositions, how remote soever from reason." Locke.
4. 4. Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.
5. 5. Separate; abstracted. "Wherever the mind places itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from, all bodies." Locke.
6. 6. Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant. "From the effect to the remotest cause." Granville.
7. 7. Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
8. 8. Separated by intervals greater than usual. -- Re*mote"ly, adv. -- Re*mote"ness, n.