far
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fär
ipa: /fɑː/
ipa: /fɑɹ/
ipa: /fɐː/
ipa: /faː/
ipa: /faɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /fɑ(r)/
note: Dublin
ipa: /fæːɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: farther
form: further
form: farthest
form: furthest
form: farthermost
form: furthermost
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ferre, fer, Old English feor, feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai
Senses: examples: text: He went to a far land.
text: And they went to Ioshua vnto the campe at Gilgal, and said vnto him, and to the men of Israel, Wee be come from a farre countrey: Now therefore make ye a league with vs.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 9:6:
text: Tsiolkas's Europe, as voraciously predatory as his own undead protagonist, is a far cry from the fount of idealistic humanism dreamed up by generations of both pre- and post-Enlightenment politicians and philosophers, a Europe defined by its durable capacity for civility in an otherwise barbarous world.
ref: 2009, Graham Huggan, Ian Law, Racism Postcolonialism Europe, page 1:
glosses: Distant; remote in space.
examples: the far far future
glosses: Remote in time.
examples: text: I have such a long way to go but yet I have come such a far piece already
ref: 2011, Peggy Woods, Ramblings from a Soul, page 42:
glosses: Long.
examples: text: At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: See those two mountains? The ogre lives on the far one.
text: He moved to the far end of the state. She remained at this end.
glosses: More remote of two.
examples: text: They are on the far right on this issue.
text: He was withdrawn to such a far degree that it required of Piers and Jude a good deal of occasional conferencing between the two of them, in private.
ref: 2010, William Alexander Patterson, 4th, The City Is served Bartholomew! to the American Prison!, page 118:
glosses: Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.
examples: text: As sensible maketh a man differ from a stone, in a far difference; for other Species, as Beasts, have the same difference, but reasonable is the nearest, whereby he differeth from a stone, beasts, and all other things.
ref: 1657, Henry Ainsworth, Zachary Coke, The Art of Logick., page 26:
text: Is there not a far difference between asking it up and urging it, Mr. Secretary?
ref: 1979, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations, Military situation in the Far East - Volume 3, page 1737:
text: The pressbook identifies the film as a 'picturization of Jane Austen's widely read novel' and starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier (based on the theatrical adaptation by Helen Jerome), it is a far remove from adaptations that follow.
ref: 2010, Deborah Cartmell, Screen Adaptations: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, page 78:
text: This may not be at such a far remove from the endlessly recursive textual inventions of Kafka, Beckett, and Bernhard as it may seem.
ref: 2014, Henry Sussman, Playful Intelligence: Digitizing Tradition, page 124:
glosses: Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.
examples: text: far heap; far memory; far pointer
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
Synonyms: sense: remote in space
word: distant
word: distant
Derived terms: a bridge too far
afar
a far remove
as far as
as far as I can throw you
as far as I'm concerned
as far as one knows
as far as the eye can see
as far as the eye could see
by far
by far and away
cast one's net far and wide
far and away
far and wide
faraway
far away
far be it
Far Cotton
far cry
far-famed
far far away
farfetch
far-fetched
far fetched
far-field
far field
far-flung
Far Forest
far from
far from it
fargoing
far gone
far-left
far left
far-lefter
far leftist
far-leftist
farmost
farness
Far North
far-off
far off
far-out
far out
far point
far post
far-reaching
farreaching
far removed
far-right
far right
far-righter
far rightist
far-rightist
Far Sawrey
farsee
far-seeing
farseeing
farseer
farsight
far sight
far-sighted
farsighted
farspeak
farstretched
far turn
few and far between
go far
go so far as
go too far
how far
howsofar
if you go far enough left, you get your guns back
in so far as
overfar
over the hills and far away
so far
so far as
so far so good
take too far
the apple does not fall far from the stem
the apple does not fall far from the tree
the apple does not fall far from the trunk
the apple doesn't fall far from the tree
the apple never falls far from the tree
the nut does not fall far from the tree
thus far
too far gone
trust someone as far as one can spit
trust someone as far as one could fling a bull by the tail
trust someone as far as one could spit
trust someone as far as one could throw them