Synonyms: remote, remote control
Definition: a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance
Usage: he lost the remote for his TV
Similar words: device
Definition: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose
Usage: the device is small enough to wear on your wrist; a device intended to conserve water
Definition: inaccessible and sparsely populated;
Similar words: inaccessible, unaccessible
Definition: capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all
Definition: located far away spatially
Usage: distant lands; remote stars
Similar words: far
Definition: located at a great distance in time or space or degree
Usage: we come from a far country; far corners of the earth; the far future; a far journey; the far side of the road; far from the truth; far in the future
Synonyms: remote, removed, distant
Definition: separate or apart in time
Usage: distant events; the remote past or future
Similar words: far
Definition: located at a great distance in time or space or degree
Usage: we come from a far country; far corners of the earth; the far future; a far journey; the far side of the road; far from the truth; far in the future
Definition: far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship
Usage: a distant cousin; a remote relative; a distant likeness; considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics
Similar words: faraway
Definition: far removed mentally
Usage: a faraway (or distant) look in her eyes
Similar words: loosely knit
Definition: having only distant social or legal ties
Usage: a loosely knit group
Similar words: removed
Definition: separated in relationship by a given degree of descent
Usage: a cousin once removed
Similar words: ulterior
Definition: beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote
Usage: a suggestion ulterior to the present discussion; without...any purpose, immediate or ulterior- G.B.Shaw
Definition: very unlikely
Usage: an outside chance; a remote possibility; a remote contingency
Similar words: unlikely
Definition: has little chance of being the case or coming about
Usage: an unlikely story; an unlikely candidate for reelection; a butcher is unlikely to preach vegetarianism