In any way, any extent, or any degree
“We had never seen anything remotely like it.”
Adverb for far away from a given location
“A remotely situated five bedroom house.”
(a little) Hardly or not at all
Adverb 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.”
Adverb 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.”
Adverb 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.”
Adverb for improbable in degree or likelihood
“Just suppose that cloning a human was no longer a remote possibility, but a scientific reality.”
Adverb 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) Adverb 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.”
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