| Outlying (a.) Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached. Thesaurus Entries apparent, cortical, distant, epidermic, exomorphic, exterior, external, extraneous, extraorganismal, extrinsic, far, far-flung, far-off, faraway, farthest, foreign, fringe, furthest, impersonal, nonsubjective, objective, open, out, out-of-the-way, outer, outermost, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing, peripheral, public, remote, removed, roundabout, seeming, superficial, surface |