outlying
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outlying (comparative more outlying, superlative most outlying)
- Relatively remote from some central location.
- The more outlying villages were never visited by their member of parliament.
- Located outside of some boundary or limit.
- When the map was redrawn after the war, our cousin found herself living in outlying territory.
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References [edit]
- “outlying” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
- outlying in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
