Remote

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·superl Separate; abstracted.

II. Remote ·superl Not agreeing; alien; foreign.

III. Remote ·superl Separated by intervals greater than usual.

IV. Remote ·superl Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.

V. Remote ·superl Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.

VI. Remote ·superl Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.

VII. Remote ·superl Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related;

— in various figurative uses.

VIII. Remote ·superl Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant;

— said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.

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