 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
remote
adjective
1: far distant in space; "distant lands"; "remote stars"; "a
remote outpost of civilization"; "a hideaway far
removed from towns and cities" [syn: {distant}, {removed}]
2: very unlikely; "an outside chance"; "a remote possibility";
"a remote contingency" [syn: {outside}]
3: far distant in time; "distant events"; "the remote past or
future"; "a civilization ten centuries removed from modern
times" [syn: {distant}, {removed}]
4: inaccessible and sparsely populated [syn: {backwoods(a)}, {outback(a)}]
5: far apart in nature; "considerations entirely removed (or
remote) from politics" [syn: {removed(p)}]
noun: a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus
from a distance; "he lost the remote for his TV" [syn: {remote
control}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Remote \Re*mote"\ (r?-m?t"), adjective [Compar. {Remoter} (-?r);
superl. {Remotest}.] [L. remotus, p. p. of removere to
remove. See {Remove}.]
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:
(a) Not agreeing; alien; foreign. ''All these
propositions, how remote soever from reason.''
--Locke.
(b) Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection
or consanguinity.
(c) Separate; abstracted. ''Wherever the mind places
itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from,
all bodies.'' --Locke.
(d) Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.
''From the effect to the remotest cause.''
--Granville.
(e) Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
3. (Bot.) Separated by intervals greater than usual.
-- {Re*mote"ly}, adverb -- {Re*mote"ness}, noun
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
156 Moby Thesaurus words for "remote":
Olympian, above all that, abstracted, acquisitive, alien, aloof,
ambitious for self, ancient, apart, arcane, asunder, at a distance,
autistic, away, back, backward, bashful, blank, careerist, casual,
chilled, chilly, cold, constrained, cool, detached, devious,
discreet, disinterested, distal, distant, early, egotistical,
exclusive, exotic, expressionless, faint, far, far off, far-flung,
far-off, faraway, farfetched, fat, foggy, forbidding, forced,
frigid, frontier, frosty, grasping, greedy, guarded, icy,
impassive, impersonal, implausible, improbable, in a backwater,
inaccessible, inappropriate, inconsiderable, incurious,
indifferent, individualistic, insignificant, insular, introverted,
irrelevant, isolated, lonely, lonesome, long-distance, long-range,
modest, narcissistic, negligible, obscure, off, offish,
out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outlandish, outlying, outside,
personalistic, poor, possessive, privatistic, quarantined,
quite another thing, recondite, removed, repressed, reserved,
restrained, reticent, retired, retiring, secluded, seclusive,
secret, segregated, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-advancing,
self-besot, self-centered, self-considerative, self-contained,
self-devoted, self-esteeming, self-indulgent, self-interested,
self-jealous, self-occupied, self-pleasing, self-seeking,
self-serving, self-sufficient, selfish, separate, separated,
sequestered, shrinking, shut off, slender, slight, slim, small,
something else again, standoff, standoffish, strained, subdued,
subtle, suppressed, tramontane, ultramontane, unaffable,
unapproachable, unconcerned, uncongenial, unconnected,
undemonstrative, unexpansive, unfamiliar, unfrequented, ungenial,
uninterested, unlikely, unrelated, unsettled, unusual, unvisited,
withdrawn
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Remote, OR
Zip code(s): 97468
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