REMO'TE, adjective [Latin remotus, removeo; re and moveo, to move.] 1. Distant in place; not near; as a remote country; a remote people. Give me a life remote from guilty courts. 2. Distant in time, past or future; as remote antiquity. Every man is apt to think the time of his dissolution to be remote 3. Distant; not immediate. It is not all remote and even apparent good that affects us. 4. Distant; primary; not proximate; as the remote causes of a disease. 5. Alien; foreign; not agreeing with; as a proposition remote from reason. 6. Abstracted; as the mind placed by thought amongst or remote from all bodies. 7. Distant in consanguinity or affinity; as a remote kinsman. 8. Slight; inconsiderable; as a remote analogy between cases; a remote resemblance is form or color.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI