outlying

From outlie (Etymology 2) +‎ -ing.

outlying (comparative more outlying, superlative most outlying)

1. Relatively remote from some central location.

   The more outlying villages were never visited by their member of parliament.

   • 1959 March, R. C. Rley, “Home with the Milk”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 155, 157:

     Lorries collect the milk from the various outlying farms, whence it is taken to the district distribution centre to undergo pasteurisation.

2. Located outside of some boundary or limit.

   When the map was redrawn after the war, our cousin found herself living in outlying territory.

• (relatively remote): distant, far; see also Thesaurus:distant

• outlier

outlying (plural outlyings)

1. A region relatively remote from a central location.
   • 1975, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution, Water Pollution Control Act of 1972: Effect on Small Communities

     The other areas and the outlyings will have to come in at a later date, although the council wrestles with that periodically. But the amount of money involved would be substantial.

• “outlying”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• outlying in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913