remote
UK [ɹɪˈməʊt] · US [ɹɪˈmoʊt] adjective, noun, verb
Forms remoter remotest remotes remoting remoted
- adjective At a distance; disconnected. “A remote operator may control the vehicle with a wireless handset.”
- adjective Distant or otherwise inaccessible. “After his fall from the emperor's favor, the general was posted to a remote outpost.”
- adjective (especially with respect to likelihood) Slight. “There was only a remote possibility that we would be rescued as we were far outside of the regular shipping lanes.”
- adjective Emotionally detached. “After her mother's death, my friend grew remote for a time while she dealt with her grief.”
- noun (broadcasting) An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room.
- noun (computing) A source control repository hosted on a remote machine, rather than locally.
- verb (computing) To connect to a computer from a remote location.
- verb to remove (from something or someone)
Synonyms
disconnected hands-free wireless far hidden distant far-flung far-off faraway outlandish outlying out of the way faint small aloof dispassionate removed withdrawn cool frosty remote control outside outback
Antonyms
attached connected contiguous direct presential close near proximate around the corner citerior close by immediate
Etymology
From Middle English remote, from Old French remot, masculine, remote, feminine, from Latin remotus, past participle of removere (“to remove”), from re- + movere (“to move”).
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; --said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
- adjective 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.
Etymology [L. remotus, p. p. of removere to remove. See Remove.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “remote”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details