Outlying

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Relatively distant or remote from a center or middle: outlying regions.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Relatively remote from some central location.
  • adj. Located outside of some boundary or limit.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Lying without or beyond the boundary or limit: external; extraneous; non-appurtenant; alien.
  • Lying at a distance from the main body, design, etc.; appurtenant, but not contiguous; disconnected; isolated; hence, unrelated; extrinsic.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. relatively far from a center or middle
    • Equivalent
    far   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    exterior    remote    detached   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    adjacent    inland    eastern    surround    populous   
     
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