Crossword clues for remoter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remote \Re*mote"\ (r?-m?t"), a. [Compar. Remoter (-?r); superl. Remotest.] [L. remotus, p. p. of removere to remove. See Remove.]
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Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
Places remote enough are in Bohemia.
--Shak.Remote from men, with God he passed his days.
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Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses. Specifically:
Not agreeing; alien; foreign. ``All these propositions, how remote soever from reason.''
--Locke.Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.
Separate; abstracted. ``Wherever the mind places itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from, all bodies.''
--Locke.Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant. ``From the effect to the remotest cause.''
--Granville.Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
(Bot.) Separated by intervals greater than usual. [1913 Webster] -- Re*mote"ly, adv. -- Re*mote"ness, n.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: remote)
Usage examples of "remoter".
In his face one might notice that many of the hues and curves of youth had tarried on to manhood: there even remained in his remoter crannies some relics of the boy.
It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
In this he stated that he was passing over the cliff on the remoter side of the cove just as the sun was setting.
To meet these contingencies, there was frequently provided, to accompany the flocks from the remoter points, a pony and waggon into which the weakly ones were taken for the remainder of the journey.
It widened out as it receded from us, and its roof came down and hid the remoter portion altogether.
In their remoter recesses, I am told, strange creatures lurk, some of them terrible and dangerous creatures that all the science of the moon has been unable to exterminate.
Nor was it generally understood that since Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from life's beginning but nearer its end.
The Martians had taken away the excavating machine, and, save for a fighting-machine that stood in the remoter bank of the pit and a handling-machine that was buried out of my sight in a corner of the pit immediately beneath my peephole, the place was deserted by them.
It will be found that decisions based on the direct implications of the language used, and others based upon a remoter inference of what the parties must have meant, or would have said if they had spoken, shade into each other by imperceptible degrees.