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removed
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective removed has 2 senses
- removed(s = adj.all) Array - separated in relationship by a given degree of descent; "a cousin once removed"
- removed(s = adj.all) distant, remote - separate or apart in time; "distant events"; "the remote past or future"
CIDE DICTIONARY
removed, a.
- Changed in place. [1913 Webster]
- Dismissed from office. [1913 Webster]
- Distant in location; remote. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
removed
Olympian, alien, alienated, alone, aloof, apart, asunder, at a distance, away, backward, bashful, blank, chilled, chilly, cold, companionless, constrained, cool, detached, devious, disarticulated, disconnected, discreet, discrete, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, dispersed, disrelated, dissociated, distal, distant, disunited, divided, divorced, estranged, exclusive, exotic, expressionless, extraneous, far, far off, far-flung, far-off, faraway, forbidding, foreign, friendless, frigid, frosty, guarded, homeless, icy, impassive, impersonal, in a backwater, inaccessible, incommensurable, incomparable, independent, insular, interspaced, intervaled, introverted, irrelative, isolate, isolated, kithless, lone, lonely, lonesome, long-distance, long-range, modest, offish, other, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outlandish, outlying, parted, quarantined, remote, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retired, retiring, rootless, scattered, secluded, seclusive, secret, segregate, segregated, separate, separated, sequestered, set at intervals, shrinking, shut off, single-handed, solitary, solo, spaced, spaced out, standoff, standoffish, strange, subdued, suppressed, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaffable, unaffiliated, unaided, unallied, unapproachable, unassisted, unassociated, unattended, uncongenial, unconnected, undemonstrative, unescorted, unexpansive, unfrequented, ungenial, unrelatable, unrelated, unseconded, unsupported, unvisited, with an interval, with intervals, withdrawn
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