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remote

UK[ɹɪˈməʊt][ɹɪˈmoʊt]

remote adjective: at a distance; disconnected. Also the ellipsis of remote control.

Adjective

remote (comparative more remote or remoter, superlative most remote or remotest)

  1. At a distance; disconnected.
    • A remote operator may control the vehicle with a wireless handset.
    • remote workers
  2. Distant or otherwise inaccessible.
    • After his fall from the emperor's favor, the general was posted to a remote outpost.
  3. (especially) 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.
    Synonyms:
    distant, faint, small
  4. Emotionally detached.
    • After her mother's death, my friend grew remote for a time while she dealt with her grief.

Noun

remote (plural remotes)

  1. An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room.
  2. A source control repository hosted on a remote machine, rather than locally.

Verb

remote (third-person singular simple present remotes, present participle remoting, simple past and past participle remoted)

  1. To connect to a computer from a remote location.
  2. 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

Also used as

remote is also the ellipsis of remote control.

remote meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

remote in Hindi

at a distance
दूर dūr, दूरस्थ dūrasth
distant or otherwise unaccessible
दूरस्थ dūrasth

remote in Tamil

ரிமோட், ரிமோட் செய்தல்

remote in Marathi

remote control
रिमोट rimoṭ

remote in Urdu

at a distance
دور dūr
More languagesFewer languages
remote in Bengali
দূরবর্তী, রিমোট
remote in Telugu
రిమోట్, రిమోట్ చేయడం
remote in Malayalam
വിദൂര, റിമോട്ട്, വിദൂരമാക്കൽ
remote in Kannada
ರಿಮೋಟ್, ದೂರಸ್ಥ, ರಿಮೋಟ್ ಮಾಡುವುದು
remote in Punjabi
ਰਿਮੋਟ, ਰਿਮੋਟ ਕਰਨਾ
remote in Gujarati
દૂરસ્થ, રિમોટ
remote in Sanskrit
दूर dūra
remote in Nepali
रिमोट, रिमोट गर्दै, रिमोट गर्ने
remote in Arabic
بَعِيد baʕīd, نَاءٍ nāʔin
remote in Malay
terpencil
remote in Indonesian
jarak jauh, remote, pengendali jarak jauh
remote in Persian
دور dur, دوردست durdast
remote in Vietnamese
xa, điều khiển từ xa, remote, rì-mốt

Examples of remote in a sentence

  • They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities.
  • This plant's light and fluffy seeds may be borne by the wind to remote islands.
  • In remote method invocation, the client helper is a ‘stub’ and the service helper is a ‘skeleton’.

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Synonyms of remote

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Antonyms

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Forms of remote

Adjective
comparativemore remote
comparativeremoter
superlativemost remote
superlativeremotest
Noun
pluralremotes
Verb
third-person singular presentremotes
present participleremoting
past participleremoted
pastremoted

Origin of remote

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”).

Words formed from remote

Phrases with remote

4 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with remote

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Questions about remote

What does remote mean?
Remote means at a distance; disconnected.
What is remote in Hindi?
Remote in Hindi is दूर (dūr), दूरस्थ (dūrasth). See Remote meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is remote?
Remote can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce remote?
Remote is pronounced [ɹɪˈməʊt] (UK).

Words near remote in the dictionary

  1. remorts
  2. remosomal
  3. remosome
  4. remosomes
  5. remotable
  6. remote
  7. remote access
  8. remote control
  9. remote controls
  10. remote desktop
  11. remote desktops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: remote (page history and authors); remote (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); remote (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); remote (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); remote (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); remote (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); remote (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); remote (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); remote (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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