Word Meanings - REMOTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Separated by intervals greater than usual. -- Re*mote"ly, adv. -- Re*mote"ness, n. (more info) 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

Additional info about word: REMOTE

Separated by intervals greater than usual. -- Re*mote"ly, adv. -- Re*mote"ness, n. (more info) 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: Not agreeing; alien; foreign. "All these propositions, how remote soever from reason." Locke. Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity. Separate; abstracted. "Wherever the mind places itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from, all bodies." Locke. Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant. "From the effect to the remotest cause." Granville. Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REMOTE)

• Distant
• Far
• remote
• aloof
• apart
• asunder
• separate
• indistinct
• obscure
• Extreme
• Terminal
• final
• utmost
• farthest
• extravagant
• immoderate
• most violent
• distant
• ultimate
• Immemorial
• Primitive
• ancient
• archaic
• primordial
• timehonored
• Recondite
• Deep
• hidden
• abstruse
• profound
• concealed
• Ulterior
• Further
• more distant
• remoter
• succeeding
• beyond

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REMOTE)

• Reveal
• make known
• discover

Related words: (words related to REMOTE)

• PRIMORDIALLY
  At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.
• SUCCEEDANT
  Succeeding one another; following.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• PRIMITIVENESS
  The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.
• DISTANT
  stand apart, be separate or distant; dis- + stare to stand. See 1. Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. One board had two tenons, equally distant. Ex. xxxvi. 22. Diana's temple is not distant far. Shak. 2. Far separated;
• CONCEALED
  Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• ABSTRUSELY
  In an abstruse manner.
• ULTIMATE
  come to an end, fr. ultimus the farthest, last, superl. from the same 1. Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final. My harbor, and my ultimate repose. Milton. Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this
• EXTREMELESS
  Having no extremes; infinite.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• ALOOF
  See ALEWIFE
• SUCCEEDER
  A successor. Shak. Tennyson.
• EXTRAVAGANT
  + vagance, , p. pr. of vagari to wander, from vagus wandering, vague. 1. Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign. The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. Shak. 2. Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained;
• APARTMENT HOUSE
  A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.
• DISCOVERABLE
  Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
• APARTNESS
  The quality of standing apart.
• DISCOVERY
  1. The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot. 2. A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next
• BEYOND
  1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or
• ANTEPENULTIMATE
  Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two. -- n.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• SUBOBSCURELY
  Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.
• INCONCEALABLE
  Not concealable. "Inconcealable imperfections." Sir T. Browne.
• POSTREMOTE
  More remote in subsequent time or order.
• EQUIDISTANT
  Being at an equal distance from the same point or thing. -- E`qui*dis"tant*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.
• PREREMOTE
  More remote in previous time or prior order. In some cases two more links of causation may be introduced; one of them may be termed the preremote cause, the other the postremote effect. E. Darwin.