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More distant in space than another item of the same kind
“After bidding farewell, the people took the king to a remote island in a boat and left him there.”
Comparative for placed or standing away from view
“I have a bungalow for us on the beach in a remote little cove so we can be alone.”
Comparative for isolated, especially from civilization or society
“Two American women would trek through the Himalayas to a remote mountain village, where they shared the life of local village women and their families.”
Comparative for having very little connection with or relationship to
“The application of one's current thinking to problems remote from one's experience is not simply a by-product of having learned to solve somewhat similar problems.”
Comparative for small in degree or level
“Lydia has never hit a golf ball, but desperately wanting to become a millionaire and thinking that there is a remote chance that she will make a hole in one, she enters the contest.”
Comparative for improbable in degree or likelihood
“Just suppose that cloning a human was no longer a remote possibility, but a scientific reality.”
Comparative for aloof or unemotional in manner or behavior
“While seen as personally remote and aloof, Collins came across as fair and measured in meetings with unions.”
(of a device) Comparative for not connected to anything (e.g. via wires or cables)
“With the remote control, we could turn the television on and off. I think this was when we started to become less patient with the shows being televised.”
At, or to, a more distant or advanced position or point
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