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say it: ri-MOHT
remote is an adjective and noun meaning "located far away spatially". It carries 6 recorded senses.
inaccessible and sparsely populated
far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship
“a distant cousin”
“a remote relative”
“a distant likeness”
“considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics”
a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance
“he lost the remote for his TV”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for remote come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.