adverb
definition
At a distance, far away.
definition
Not much; scarcely; hardly.
example
I'm not remotely in love with you.
Examples of remotely in a Sentence
There was nothing remotely friendly or soft about Charles.
How many times have any of us been involved in an event remotely exciting?
He hadn't been attacked by anything remotely human or animal.
He seemed immune to most emotions remotely human.
On the outbreak of the French Revolution the king and queen were not at first hostile to the new movement; but after the fall of the French monarchy they became violently opposed to it, and in 1793 joined the first coalition against France, instituting severe persecutions against all who were remotely suspected of French sympathies.
At the Bibliotheque Nationale, where he obtained a post, he rendered great service by his wide knowledge of foreign languages, and read voraciously everything that related, however remotely, to his favourite studies.
In addition to the three classes, Equisetales, Lycopodiales and Filicales, under which recent Pteridophytes naturally group themselves, a fourth class, Sphenophyllales, existed in Palaeozoic times, clearly related to the Horsetails and more remotely to the Ferns and perhaps the Club-mosses, but with peculiarities of its own demanding an independent position.
Xander's eyes glowed with hunger, and his fangs were receding in a way not remotely human.
Wolff's formalism is the bastard outcome of the speculation of Leibnitz, and is related to it as remotely as Scholasticism is to Aristotle.
Important as the Revival of Learning undoubtedly was, there are essential factors in the complex called the Renaissance with which it can but remotely be connected.
If what the Watcher said was remotely true, she was a powerful weapon in the hands of the Others, and he had limited otherworldly ability to protect her from them.
He growled, a sound that made his chest vibrate against hers in a way not remotely human.
The only thing remotely personal she owned—her photo viewer—had been destroyed on the Peak.
Nothing about Xander was remotely … nice.
We try to deal will all support issues remotely by telephone, email or remote access.
A soft comforting nightlight that can be remotely activated.
The Unix virus payload can then install a backdoor which can be remotely directed.
The ability to remotely troubleshoot, configure, and update handsets can improve the bottom line by reducing costs.
Mozart had produced nothing remotely comparable by the same age.
These are remotely configured and in most cases can also be remotely upgraded.
Anybody or anything that was remotely connected with the Romans was killed or destroyed.
They are in no position to judge whether Borat or his movie is remotely credible or fair.
Fogging machine A machine which is able to be operated remotely to place detonators on a rail.
The solution also included WinScribe's telephone dictation module to provide fee earners with facilities for dictation when working remotely.
Trigger logic and timing is derived using leading-edge discriminators in remotely controlled 16-channel VME modules.
Harrison, tho, is not remotely fazed by such a reputation.
Giant octopus attack A remotely operated submarine in Canada has captured rare footage of it being attacked by a giant octopus.
He should never be called on to do anything remotely heroic.
Hummingbird Exceed provides the performance boost necessary for students to remotely access graphically intensive CAD design tools from PCs in their homes.
Down time losing meet a future on an earnings the talks remotely.
Access rights can be set remotely in the network neighborhood.
I don't know how you could think that what they say is even remotely plausible.
Graphics [back to top of page] How can I run graphics programs remotely?
I watch a lot of horror film none have been remotely scary.
The analysis can even be extended to remotely identify the physical machine being used, through extracting clock skew.
But now they've become so slick that they can read and record your card details and PIN number remotely.
Longer term studies have used repeat visits by remotely operated vehicles and manned submersibles.
The mechanical connection from the turbine shaft may be through an engine-mounted gearbox or through a power takeoff shaft to a remotely mounted gearbox.
The backup system allows an operator to remotely control a VHF or other band transceiver over the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN ).
Many deep-sea trawlers now have active trawl doors that can be adapted remotely whilst on the seabed.
This latter animal is closely related to one which Cuvier termed Pangolin gigantesque, and had he restored it according to his " law of correlation " he would have pictured a giant " scaly anteater," a type as wide as the poles from the actual form of Chalicotherium, which in body, limbs and teeth is a modified ungulate herbivore, related remotely to the tapirs.
Wallace suggests that the remotely ancient representatives of the human species, being as yet animals too low in mind to have developed those arts of maintenance and social ordinances by which man holds his own against influences from climate and circumstance, were in their then wild state much more plastic than now to external nature; so that " natural selection " and other causes met with but feeble resistance in forming the permanent varieties or races of man, whose complexion and structure still remained fixed in their descendants (see Wallace, Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection, p. 319).
Computers can connect to and control highly specialized scientific instruments, and equipment can be accessed remotely.
Nothing even remotely resembling a masked crusader, then?
But now they 've become so slick that they can read and record your card details and PIN number remotely.
Some are remotely hosted live statistics packages which require you to place a link on your pages.
We also use a service that collects data remotely by using " web beacons " or tags embedded in our site 's content.
They were also able to deploy a remotely operated vehicle under the ice, and flew aerial photography transects using the ship 's helicopters.
Links to working examples of remotely hosted webmaster tools are provided where available for your convenience.
You've got stacks of diapers, a versatile stroller, a cute-as-a-button crib and anything else that is remotely baby related.