remote

Meanings

Plural: remotes

Noun

• a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance
  • "he lost the remote for his TV"
• Ellipsis of remote control.
• An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room.
• A source control repository hosted on a remote machine, rather than locally.

Adjective Satellite

• located far away spatially
  • "remote stars"
• very unlikely
  • "a remote possibility"
  • "a remote contingency"
• separate or apart in time
  • "the remote past or future"
• inaccessible and sparsely populated

Adjective

• far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship
  • "a remote relative"
  • "considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics"

Adj

• At a distance; disconnected.
• Distant or otherwise inaccessible.
• Slight.
• Emotionally detached.

Verb

• To connect to a computer from a remote location.
• to remove (from something or someone)

Synonyms

aloof, buttons, clicker, cool, disconnected, dispassionate, distant, faint, far, far-flung, far-off, faraway, frosty, hands-free, hankty, hard-to-get, hidden, offish, out of the way, outback, outlandish, outlying, outside, quiet, remote, remote control, removed, reserved, small, standoffish, strange, thorny, touch-me-not-ish, unapproachable, unbending, undemonstrative, unimpressionable, uninvolved, wireless, withdrawn, zapper

Antonyms

attached, close, companionable, connected, considerable, contiguous, direct, distant, great, intimate, involved, near, passionate, presential, proximate, reasonable, sure

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