The word "remoter" means something that is far away in space, time or relevance. Its antonyms include words such as closer, nearer, proximal, adjacent, adjacent and immediate. For example, if there are two offices and one of them is closer to the elevator, you would choose to go to that office instead of the remoter office. Similarly, if you are discussing two topics and one is more relevant to the current situation, you would focus on the immediate topic rather than the remoter one. Hence, understanding the antonyms of the word "remoter" helps to communicate effectively and efficiently.

What are the antonyms for Remoter?

• adj.

  • noun
  • This
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  • closer
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  • near
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  • nigher
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Usage examples for Remoter

Famous quotes with Remoter

• There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

  Thomas Hardy
• As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

  Clarence Day
• Again time passed. In one of the remoter galaxies a supernova flamed, and on a rocky, barren world a small living thing squirmed experimentally—and to mankind the one event was just as important as the other.

  Murray Leinster
• One of the noblest characteristics which distinguish modern civilization from that of remoter times is, that it has enlarged the mass of our conceptions, rendered us more capable of perceiving the connection between the physical and intellectual world, and thrown a more general interest over objects which heretofore occupied only a few scientific men, because those objects were contemplated separately, and from a narrower point of view.

  Alexander von Humboldt
• The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.

  William Wordsworth

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