remote
At a distance; disconnected.
Adjective
- At a distance; disconnected.
- A remote operator may control the vehicle with a wireless handset.
- remote workers
Synonyms: disconnected hands-free wireless
Antonyms: attached connected contiguous direct presential
- Distant or otherwise inaccessible.
- After his fall from the emperor's favor, the general was posted to a remote outpost.
Synonyms: far hidden distant far-flung far-off faraway outlandish outlying out of the way remote
Antonyms: close near proximate around the corner citerior close by immediate nearby nigh present propinquitous
- Slight.
- There was only a remote possibility that we would be rescued as we were far outside of the regular shipping lanes.
- They have a very remote chance of winning.
- You have a remote resemblance to my grandmother.
Antonyms: considerable great reasonable sure
- Emotionally detached.
- After her mother's death, my friend grew remote for a time while she dealt with her grief.
Synonyms: aloof dispassionate distant removed withdrawn cool frosty hankty hard-to-get offish quiet remote reserved standoffish strange thorny touch-me-not-ish unapproachable unbending undemonstrative unimpressionable uninvolved
Antonyms: companionable intimate involved passionate
Origin
From Middle English remote, from Old French remot, masculine, remote, feminine, from Latin remotus, past participle of removere (“to remove”), from re- + movere (“to move”).
Forms
Derived
georemote nonremote postremote preremote remotable remote access remote control remote-controlled remote desktop remote froglet remote hands remote horn remote keyless entry remotely remote method invocation remoteness remote passed pawn remote procedure call remote proxy remote schizoid remote sensing remote sensing scientist remote speaker remote starter
Noun
- Ellipsis of remote control.
- I hate it when my uncle comes over to visit; he always sits in the best chair and hogs the remote.
- 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.
Forms
Synonyms
Verb
- To connect to a computer from a remote location.
- to remove (from something or someone)
- These requirements are applicable whether you are remoting into a server or locally executing SharePoint cmdlets. - 2010, Bill English, Microsoft Sharepoint 2010: Administrator's Companion: