Remotely means from a distance, or in the slightest degree. Work remotely, not remotely interested, remotely operated.
The two senses have nothing to do with each other in use: working remotely is a place, and not remotely true is a degree. The second is almost always negative — nobody says it is remotely true, only that it is not.
1adverbremotelyFrom a distance, or in the slightest degree.
“I'm not remotely interested in football, so I'll skip the match.”
remotely is a manner.
Proto-Indo-European
*m(y)ewh₁-
Latin
remotus
Old French
remot
Middle English
remote
English
remote
English, today
remotely
Built from
From remote + -ly. remote comes from Middle English remote, from Old French remot, masculine, remote, feminine, from Latin remotus, past participle of removere (“to remove”), from re- + movere (“to move”).
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