remote
[ri-moht]
- far apart; far distant in space; situated at some distance away: the remote jungles of Brazil.
- out-of-the-way; secluded: a remote village; a remote mountaintop.
- distant in time: remote antiquity.
- distant in relationship or connection: a remote ancestor.
- operating or controlled from a distance, as by remote control: a remote telephone answering machine.
- far off; abstracted; removed: principles remote from actions.
- not direct, primary, or proximate; not directly involved or influential: the remote causes of the war.
- slight or faint; unlikely: not the remotest idea; a remote chance.
- reserved and distant in manner; aloof; not warmly cordial.
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- Radio and Television. a broadcast, usually live, from a location outside a studio.
- remote control(def 2).
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Contemporary Examples
The remoteness of the area has been both its curse and its blessing throughout history.
Iraq’s Long-Lost Mythical Temple Has Been Found…and Is In Danger of Disappearing AgainNina Strochlic
July 24, 2014
The more monolithic bureaucracies became, Gowers felt, the more they reinforced their remoteness by using impenetrable language.
The remoteness, the coolness, the lecturing style is now a liability.
But I think there's another factor at play in the psychology of drones: their remoteness.
Historical Examples
All others, so far as she was concerned, existed only on the sufferance of remoteness.
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
I confess that there was something eerie in the isolation and remoteness of St. nimie.
The Roof of FranceMatilda Betham-Edwards
There was, indeed, a certain charm in our remoteness from the outer world.
With Manchesters in the EastGerald B. Hurst
He is here framing an ideal, without realising its remoteness.
Shelley, Godwin and Their CircleH. N. Brailsford
The remoteness of the situation gave the very boldness of his plan feasibility.
The StrollersFrederic S. Isham
remote
- located far away; distant
- far from any centre of population, society, or civilization; out-of-the-way
- distant in time
- distantly related or connecteda remote cousin
- removed, as from the source or point of action
- slight or faint (esp in the phrases not the remotest idea, a remote chance)
- (of a person's manner) aloof or abstracted
- operated from a distance; remote-controlleda remote monitor
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Word Origin
C15: from Latin remōtus far removed, from removēre, from re- + movēre to move
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Word Origin and History for remoteness
remote
adj.
mid-15c., from Middle French remot or directly from Latin remotus "afar off, remote, distant in place," past participle of removere "move back or away" (see remove (v.)). Related: Remotely; remoteness. Remote control "fact of controlling from a distance" is recorded from 1904; as a device which allows this from 1920.
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