Re‐mote″ (r?–m?t″), a. [Compar.Remoter (–?r); superl.Remotest.] [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.) Separated by intervals greater than usual.
— Re‐mote″ly, adv. — Re‐mote″ness, n.