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far-off
Distant; remote
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  1. Distant; remote
  2. Alternative spelling of far-off.
  3. Remote, either in time or space.
external
Originating outside; acting or coming from without
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  1. Originating outside; acting or coming from without
  2. Of or relating to foreign affairs or foreign countries:
  3. Suitable for application to the outside:
out-of-the-way
(Idiomatic) Taken care of.
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  1. (Idiomatic) Taken care of.
  2. Not common; unusual
  3. Being out of the ordinary; unusual:
peripheral
Related to, located in, or constituting an outer boundary or periphery.
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  1. Related to, located in, or constituting an outer boundary or periphery.
  2. Only slightly connected with what is essential or important; merely incidental
  3. (Anatomy) Relating to the surface or outer part of a body or organ; external.
back
Distant from a center of activity; remote.
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  1. Distant from a center of activity; remote.
  2. Of or for a time in the past
  3. Of a past date; not current:
insular
Suggestive of the isolated life of an island:
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  1. Suggestive of the isolated life of an island:
  2. Circumscribed and detached in outlook and experience; narrow or provincial.
  3. Like an island; detached; isolated
isolated
Having little or no social contact
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  1. Having little or no social contact
  2. Characterized by little social contact:
  3. Far from others or difficult to get to; remote:
lonely
Standing apart from others of its kind; isolated
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  1. Standing apart from others of its kind; isolated
  2. Of place or time, unfrequented by people; desolate.
  3. Of person, without companions; solitary.
lonesome
Producing such dejection:
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  1. Producing such dejection:
  2. Unhappy due to being alone; lonely
  3. Having or causing a lonely feeling
obscure
Not easily understood; vague; cryptic; ambiguous
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  1. Not easily understood; vague; cryptic; ambiguous
  2. So faintly perceptible as to lack clear delineation; indistinct:
  3. Not clearly understood or expressed; ambiguous or vague:
out-of-the-way
Being out of the ordinary; unusual:
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  1. Being out of the ordinary; unusual:
  2. Remote or secluded.
  3. (Idiomatic) Taken care of.
remote
Far off in (past or future) time
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  1. Far off in (past or future) time
  2. Located far away; distant in space.
  3. Hidden away; secluded:
removed
Of a different generation, older or younger
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  1. Of a different generation, older or younger
  2. Separated in relationship by a given degree of descent:
  3. Distant in space, time, or nature; remote.
secluded
Cut off from the public view; hidden, intimate, etc.
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  1. Cut off from the public view; hidden, intimate, etc.
  2. Hidden, isolated, remote.
  3. Removed or remote from others; solitary:
solitary
Performed, passed, or endured alone; as, a solitary journey; a solitary life.
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  1. Performed, passed, or endured alone; as, a solitary journey; a solitary life.
  2. Happening, done, or made alone:
  3. Existing, living, or going without others; alone:
Find another word for outlying. In this page you can discover 20 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for outlying, like: afar, far-off, external, out-of-the-way, peripheral, distant, remote, back, insular, isolated and lonely.

Sentence Examples

  • In the outlying serfs' quarters torches and candles were burning and no one slept.

  • Two were in outlying areas north of town and two in the city of Keene.

  • In the north were sprinkled the outlying villages of Islington, Hoxton and Clerkenwell.

  • Its habits much resemble those of the rest of the group to which it belongs; and, like the leopard, when it happens to come within reach of an abundant and easy prey, as the sheep or calves of an outlying farming station, it kills far more than it can eat, either for the sake of the blood only or to gratify its propensity for destruction.

  • The poorer grazing lands on the upper levels of the Alps, Pyrenees, Jura and Vosges, the Landes, the more outlying regions of the central plateau, southern Brittany, Sologne, Berry, ChampagnePouilleuse, the Crau and the Carnargue, these districts being given over for the most part to sheep-raising.

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