Distant in place; not near; far removed: as, a remote country; a remote people.Distant or far away, in any sense.Mediate; by intervention of something else; not proximate.Alien; foreign; not agreeing: as, a proposition remote from reason.Separated; abstracted.Distant in consanguinity or affinity: as, a remote kinsman.Slight; inconsiderable; not closely connected; having slight relation: as, a remote analogy between cases; a remote resemblance in form or color; specifically, in the law of evidence, having too slight a bearing upon the question in controversy to afford any ground for inference.In music, having but slight relation. See relation, 8.In zoology and botany, distant from one another; few or sparse, as spots on a surface, etc.In logic:The terms of a syllogism, as contradistinguished from the propositions, which latter are the immediate matter.Terms of a proposition which are of such a nature that it is impossible that one should be true of the other.Specifically in mycology, separated by a space, as the gills of certain fungi which do not extend quite to the stem.