adjective
The more remote the transmitter, the weaker the signal
They spent their holiday on a remote island in the Indian Ocean
Her writing is scattered with references remote to the average reader's experience
Her conclusions were not remote from what we now know to be the truth
I haven't the remotest idea what you're talking about
There is only a remote chance that the experiment will succeed
He keeps himself quite remote from the hurly-burly of everyday life
The archaeopteryx is a remote ancestor of modern birds
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