Category:Remote

Re*mote" (r-mt"), a. [compar. Remoter (-r); superl. Remotest.] Etym: [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.)

Defn: separated by intervals greater than usual. -- re*mote"ly, adv. -- re*mote"ness, n.