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Definition of remote : 1. Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; - in various figurative uses.
2. Not agreeing; alien; foreign.
3. Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.
4. Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
5. Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.
6. Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; - said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
7. Separate; abstracted.
8. Separated by intervals greater than usual.

Synonyms:

there is no question of something, archaic, icy, Godforsaken, dry, to come, in the long run/term, isolated, cold-eyed, close, farfetched, time, off, contradictory, undiscovered, unimportant, unclubbable, unconnected, near, antisocial, you'll be lucky, undemonstrative, far-off, remote control, strange, cloistered, carriage, far-flung, prehistoric, improbable, cam, lonesome, inaccessible, inappropriate, antiquated, primeval, slender, hot, neither here nor there, negligible, antique, unaccessible, apart, contrasted, asocial, button, upstage, outdoor, chill, bearing, quiet, long odds, camshaft, buttoned-up, alone, tomorrow, old, separated, reticent, chilly, back, uncommunicative, when the time comes, away, backwoods, doubtful, one day, big, withdrawn, outermost, international, outlying, past, frail, immaterial, dim, clockwork, immemorial, clean, someday, outside, timeworn, out-of-door, built, belt, forgotten, small, slim, fragile, external, olden, out-of-the-way, insular, analog, relevant, academic, I don't suppose, standoffish, unlike, chamber, indirect, auxiliary, reserved, conflicting, secluded, marginal, sooner or later, faint, cold, opposed, unapproachable, secret, ancillary, unpleasant, antagonistic, ball bearing, hostile, slight, unbending, automatic, hidden, cool, outback, beside the point, aged, contrary, lonely, related, faraway, hoary, clever, bucket, sheltered, abstracted, unfriendly, attitude, deep, covert, standoff, churlish, broken, solitary, exclusive, unsociable, retired, unknown, primitive, cordless, unlikely, stony, inconceivable, aloof, frosty, antediluvian, impertinent, later, automatically, offish, obscure

distant, beyond, removed, far

irrelevant, segregated, alien, disenfranchised, foreign, detached, inapplicable, extraneous, disjoint, unaffiliated, dissociated, unallied, unrelated, separate

Usage examples:

• If anybody suspected that Ollie was concerned in her husband's death, it was some remote person whose opinion did not affect the public mind. - "The Bondboy", George W. (George Washington) Ogden.
• The lives of most women on remote farms are tragic beyond belief. - "The Co-Citizens", Corra Harris.
• Thus: " Objects near our view are apt to be thought greater than those of a larger size, that are more remote." - "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown.