removed
Americanadjective
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remote; separate; not connected with; distinct from.
- Synonyms:
- apart, solitary, isolated, abstracted, withdrawn
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distant by a given number of degrees of descent or kinship.
A first cousin once removed is the child of one's first cousin or the first cousin of one’s parent.
The grandchildren of one's first cousin are one's first cousins twice removed.
adjective
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separated by distance or abstract distinction
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(postpositive) separated by a degree of descent or kinship
the child of a person's first cousin is his first cousin once removed
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of removed
Explanation
A person who is described as removed is acting emotionally distant, like he or she has been taken away. You can also use removed to mean being far away in time or space from something else, as in "the house was far removed from the city," or "online dictionaries are far removed from what students had available in my day." And finally, if someone is separated by several steps in descent from you, they are removed, as in little Johnny, your twelfth cousin three times removed from Little Rock.
Vocabulary lists containing removed
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The Articles of Confederation (1777)
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Example Sentences
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Removed from the comforts of home — one of the last elements of consistency in her constantly shifting life — Linda is without proper refuge.
From Salon • Oct. 9, 2025
Removed from the community and yet an integral part of it, the Antidote is an orphaned Sicilian immigrant named Antonina Rossi who knows that “pain is never any one thing, it is always moving.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2025
Removed from the comfortable confines of legal logic, perhaps he would finally admit to some uncertainty—and even be open to persuasion.
From Slate • Aug. 10, 2023
Removed from the office hustle, she considered her future, she said.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2021
Removed a little upon the other side sat Gandalf in a chair of carven wood; and he seemed at first to be asleep.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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