remote
15
5.4
- adjective
- /rɪˈmoʊt/
:
remoto
- Cora had smiled, a tight, remote, unfriendly smile, as if she pitied him.
- quite remote
- too remote
One of the things it does is it finds remote associations between ideas.
- One of the things it does is it finds remote associations between ideas.
- I want to go back to Brad, who's who's remote as well.
- He says that ideas are more remote from object, objective reality than categories.
- But they necessarily have this relationship of opposition of properties remote from there also.
Examples
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Whereas while she lived, he had been a remote figure, inaccessible, distantly lofty, and strange.
Fiction book (1997) -
See how remote all of this is from the principles of Abraham Lincoln and the American founding?
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Most of all, he was never remote from the scientific community that he served so well.
Academic text (2002) -
But your possibility for success is extremely remote.
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Or if we get back, it may be in the remote past or the distant future.
Fiction book (2001) -
His problems start when he begins to feel guilty for his remote stance.
Academic text (2009) -
When I look at American presidents, most of them in their life are totally remote from me, no similarities.
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Some children assume a father must be remote and inaccessible, an unmoved mover.
Academic text (1999) -
Unlike most highborns living in remote castles, her experience of commoners was not limited to her servants.
Fiction book (1992) -
She felt remote from her hometown after living abroad for several years.
Synonyms
76
3.5
Not closely related or connected, for example a relative far away
1
5.0
Not related by birth or family ties
Antonyms
Compounds
- Offensive
1
5.6
A bomb you can make explode from far away using a small device you hold
- Specialized
Handling information in different places linked by a network
How Connected
Surface Forms
Etymology
Remote comes from parts re- 'back' and move 'to move', the same root as remove. That is why a 'remote' relative or connection is only a little or indirect link — moved away from a close relationship.