Remote \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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)