The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Remote \Re*mote"\ (r?-m?t"), a. [Compar. Remoter (-?r);
   superl. Remotest.] [L. remotus, p. p. of removere to
   remove. See Remove.]
   1. Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; --
      said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages;
      remote lands.
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            Places remote enough are in Bohemia.  --Shak.
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            Remote from men, with God he passed his days.
                                                  --Parnell.
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   2. Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related;
      -- in various figurative uses. Specifically:
      (a) Not agreeing; alien; foreign. "All these propositions,
          how remote soever from reason." --Locke.
      (b) Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection
          or consanguinity.
      (c) Separate; abstracted. "Wherever the mind places itself
          by any thought, either amongst, or remote from, all
          bodies." --Locke.
      (d) Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.
          "From the effect to the remotest cause." --Granville.
      (e) Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
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   3. (Bot.) Separated by intervals greater than usual.
      [1913 Webster] -- Re*mote"ly, adv. -- Re*mote"ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

remote
    adj 1: located far away spatially; "distant lands"; "remote
           stars" [syn: distant, remote]
    2: very unlikely; "an outside chance"; "a remote possibility";
       "a remote contingency" [syn: outside, remote]
    3: separate or apart in time; "distant events"; "the remote past
       or future" [syn: distant, remote, removed]
    4: inaccessible and sparsely populated; [syn: outback(a),
       remote]
    5: far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship ; "a
       distant cousin"; "a remote relative"; "a distant likeness";
       "considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics"
       [syn: distant, remote] [ant: close]
    n 1: a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus
         from a distance; "he lost the remote for his TV" [syn:
         remote control, remote]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

156 Moby Thesaurus words for "remote":
   Olympian, above all that, abstracted, acquisitive, alien, aloof,
   ambitious for self, ancient, apart, arcane, asunder, at a distance,
   autistic, away, back, backward, bashful, blank, careerist, casual,
   chilled, chilly, cold, constrained, cool, detached, devious,
   discreet, disinterested, distal, distant, early, egotistical,
   exclusive, exotic, expressionless, faint, far, far off, far-flung,
   far-off, faraway, farfetched, fat, foggy, forbidding, forced,
   frigid, frontier, frosty, grasping, greedy, guarded, icy,
   impassive, impersonal, implausible, improbable, in a backwater,
   inaccessible, inappropriate, inconsiderable, incurious,
   indifferent, individualistic, insignificant, insular, introverted,
   irrelevant, isolated, lonely, lonesome, long-distance, long-range,
   modest, narcissistic, negligible, obscure, off, offish,
   out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outlandish, outlying, outside,
   personalistic, poor, possessive, privatistic, quarantined,
   quite another thing, recondite, removed, repressed, reserved,
   restrained, reticent, retired, retiring, secluded, seclusive,
   secret, segregated, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-advancing,
   self-besot, self-centered, self-considerative, self-contained,
   self-devoted, self-esteeming, self-indulgent, self-interested,
   self-jealous, self-occupied, self-pleasing, self-seeking,
   self-serving, self-sufficient, selfish, separate, separated,
   sequestered, shrinking, shut off, slender, slight, slim, small,
   something else again, standoff, standoffish, strained, subdued,
   subtle, suppressed, tramontane, ultramontane, unaffable,
   unapproachable, unconcerned, uncongenial, unconnected,
   undemonstrative, unexpansive, unfamiliar, unfrequented, ungenial,
   uninterested, unlikely, unrelated, unsettled, unusual, unvisited,
   withdrawn



Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

REMOTE. At a distance; afar off, not immediate. A remote cause is not in
general sufficient to charge a man with the commission of a crime, nor with
being the author of a tort.
     2. When a man suffers an injury in consequence of the violation of a
contract, he is in general entitled to damages for the violation of such
contract, but not for remote consequences, unconnected with the contract, to
which he may be subjected; as, for example, if the maker of a promissory
note should not pay it at maturity; the holder will be entitled to damages
arising from the breach of the contract, namely, the principal and interest;
but should the holder, in consequence of the non-payment of such note, be
compelled to stop payment, and lose his credit and his business, the maker
will not be responsible for such losses, on account of the great remoteness
of the cause; so if an agent who is bound to account should neglect to do
so, and a similar failure should take place, the agent would not be
responsible for the damages thus caused. 1 Brock. Cir. C. R. 103; see 3 Pet.
69, 84, 89; 5 Mason's R. 161; 3 Wheat. 560; 1 Story, R. 157; 3 Sumn. R. 27,
270; 2 Sm. & Marsh. 340; 7 Hill, 61. Vide Cause.