- separated by distance or abstract distinction
- (postpositive) separated by a degree of descent or kinship: the child of a person's first cousin is his first cousin once removed
■ once/twice, etc. removed describes a cousin (= a relative) separated from you by one, two, etc. generations (= same family age groups): She's my first cousin once removed.
- different from something:
_ removed from: It was all so removed from our usual experience.
_ far removed: dealing with people whose culture is far removed from our own
- without enough knowledge of a particular subject, issue, situation, etc. to be effective:
_ far removed: Teachers accused the administration of being too far removed from the realities of the classroom.
- separated by one or more steps or degrees in a family relationship: Sandra's husband is my first cousin twice removed.
- distant in time or space:
_ removed from: The city remained relatively removed from the worst of the conflict.
[ADJ] v-link adv ADJ from n △If you say that an idea or situation is far removed from something, you mean that it is very different from it: He found it hard to concentrate on conversation so far removed from his present preoccupations...