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remote
noun
1 remote
A device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance:
— He lost the remote for his TV.
synonym: remote control.
Dutch: afgelegen, onwaarschijnlijk, afstandsbesturing, afstandsbediening
adjective
1 remote
Located far away spatially:
— Remote stars.
synonym: distant.
Roget 10:
irrelative†,
irrespective,
unrelated;
arbitrary;
independent,
unallied;
unconnected,
disconnected;
adrift,
isolated,
insular;
extraneous,
strange,
alien,
foreign,
outlandish,
exotic.
not comparable,
incommensurable,
heterogeneous;
unconformable
etc.
83.
irrelevant,
inapplicable;
not pertinent,
not to the,
purpose;
impertinent,
inapposite,
beside the mark,
a propos de bottes [Fr.];
aside from the purpose,
away from the purpose,
foreign to the purpose,
beside the purpose,
beside the question,
beside the transaction,
beside the point;
misplaced
etc.
(intrusive)
24;
traveling out of the record.
remote,
far-fetched,
out of the way,
forced,
neither here nor there,
quite another thing;
detached,
segregate;
disquiparant†.
multifarious;
discordant
etc.
24.
incidental,
parenthetical,
obiter dicta,
episodic.
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Roget 866:
indifferent,
cold,
frigid,
lukewarm;
cool,
cool as a cucumber;
unconcerned,
insouciant,
phlegmatic,
pococurante†,
easygoing,
devil-may-care,
careless,
listless,
lackadaisical;
half-hearted;
unambitious,
unaspiring,
undesirous†,
unsolicitous†,
unattracted.
[indifferent toward people]
aloof,
unapproachable,
remote;
uncaring.
unattractive,
unalluring,
undesired,
undesirable,
uncared for,
unwished†,
unvalued,
all one to.
insipid
etc.
391;
vain.
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Roget 196:
distant;
far off,
far away;
remote,
telescopic,
distal,
wide of;
stretching to
etc.
v.;
yon,
yonder;
ulterior;
transmarine†,
transpontine†,
transatlantic,
transalpine;
tramontane;
ultramontane,
ultramundane†;
hyperborean,
antipodean;
inaccessible,
out of the way;
unapproached†,
unapproachable;
incontiguous†.
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2 remote
Very unlikely:
— A remote possibility.
— A remote contingency.
synonym: outside.
3 remote
Separate or apart in time:
— The remote past or future.
synonyms: distant, removed.
Polish: daleki
4 remote
Inaccessible and sparsely populated.
synonym: outback.
5 remote
Far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship:
— A remote relative.
— Considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics.
synonym: distant.
Moby thesaurus: Olympian, above all that, abstracted, acquisitive, alien, aloof, ambitious for self, ancient, apart, arcane, asunder, at a distance, autistic, away, back, backward, bashful, blank, careerist, casual, chilled, chilly, cold, constrained, cool, detached, devious, discreet, disinterested, distal, distant, early, egotistical, exclusive, exotic, expressionless, faint, far, far off, far-flung, far-off, faraway, farfetched, fat, foggy, forbidding, forced, frigid, frontier, frosty, grasping, greedy, guarded, icy, impassive, impersonal, implausible, improbable, in a backwater, inaccessible, inappropriate, inconsiderable, incurious, indifferent, individualistic, insignificant, insular, introverted, irrelevant, isolated, lonely, lonesome, long-distance, long-range, modest, narcissistic, negligible, obscure, off, offish, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outlandish, outlying, outside, personalistic, poor, possessive, privatistic, quarantined, quite another thing, recondite, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retired, retiring, secluded, seclusive, secret, segregated, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-advancing, self-besot, self-centered, self-considerative, self-contained, self-devoted, self-esteeming, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-jealous, self-occupied, self-pleasing, self-seeking, self-serving, self-sufficient, selfish, separate, separated, sequestered, shrinking, shut off, slender, slight, slim, small, something else again, standoff, standoffish, strained, subdued, subtle, suppressed, tramontane, ultramontane, unaffable, unapproachable, unconcerned, uncongenial, unconnected, undemonstrative, unexpansive, unfamiliar, unfrequented, ungenial, uninterested, unlikely, unrelated, unsettled, unusual, unvisited, withdrawn ... show more.
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