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