remote

Adjective

• far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship
  • a distant cousin
    
  • a remote relative
    
  • a distant likeness
    
  • considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics
    

• inaccessible and sparsely populated;

• separate or apart in time
  • distant events
    
  • the remote past or future
    

• very unlikely
  • an outside chance
    
  • a remote possibility
    
  • a remote contingency
    

• located far away spatially
  • distant lands
    
  • remote stars
    

Noun

• a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance
  • he lost the remote for his TV
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  distant , outback(a) , removed , outside , remote control