adjective
- lying at a distance from the center or the main body; remote; out-of-the-way: outlying military posts.
- lying outside the boundary or limit.
adjective
- distant or remote from the main body or centre, as of a town or region
adj.“outside certain limits,” 1660s, from out + present participle of lie (v.2). Meaning “remote from the center” is first recorded 1680s.