removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.-hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses.-not agreeing; alien; foreign.-not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.-separate; abstracted.-not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.-not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.-separated by intervals greater than usual.