remote
remote is a 6-letter English word with 14 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- superlative. Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
- superlative. Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses.
- superlative. Not agreeing; alien; foreign.
- superlative. Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.
- superlative. Separate; abstracted.
- superlative. Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.
- superlative. Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
- superlative. Separated by intervals greater than usual.
- noun. a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance
"he lost the remote for his TV"
- adjective. inaccessible and sparsely populated
- adjective. located far away spatially
"distant lands"
"remote stars"
- adjective. separate or apart in time
"distant events"
"the remote past or future"
- adjective. far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship
"a distant cousin"
"a remote relative"
- adjective. very unlikely
"an outside chance"
"a remote possibility"
Synonyms
outback, distant, removed, outside
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in remote:
Common word forms
remoted, remoter, remotes, remotely, remotest, remoteness
Words from these letters
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