far
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ferre, fer, Old English feor, feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai
Inflected forms:
form: farther
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: further
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: farthest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: furthest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: farthermost
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: furthermost
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: farther
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: further
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: farthest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: furthest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Distant; remote in space.
pos: adj
examples: He went to a far land.
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.
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.
gloss: Remote in time.
pos: adj
examples: the far far future
gloss: Long.
pos: adj
examples: I have such a long way to go but yet I have come such a far piece already
gloss: More remote of two.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
See those two mountains? The ogre lives on the far one.
He moved to the far end of the state. She remained at this end.
gloss: Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.
pos: adj
examples: They are on the far right on this issue.
He was withdrawn to such a far degree that it required of Piers and Jude a good deal of occasional conferencing between the two of them, in private.
gloss: Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
Is there not a far difference between asking it up and urging it, Mr. Secretary?
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.
This may not be at such a far remove from the endlessly recursive textual inventions of Kafka, Beckett, and Bernhard as it may seem.
gloss: Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: far heap; far memory; far pointer
gloss: To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.
pos: adv
examples: You have all come far and you will go further.
He built a time machine and travelled far into the future.
Over time, his views moved far away from mine.
You've gone far enough. Actually, a bit too far.
gloss: Very much; by a great amount.
pos: adv
examples: He was far richer than we'd thought.
The expense far exceeds what I expected.
I saw a tiny figure far below me.
The Reds were on the back foot early on when a catalogue of defensive errors led to Ramires giving Chelsea the lead. Jay Spearing conceded possession in midfield and Ramires escaped Jose Enrique far too easily before scoring at the near post with a shot Reina should have saved.
gloss: Emmer (a type of wheat), especially in the context of Roman use of it.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A cataplasm made from any meal is heating, whether it be of wheat, or of far, or barley, or bitter vetch, ...
Almost all the rustic writers agree in this, that far is most proper for wet clay land, and triticum for dry land. 'In wet red clays,' says Cato, 'sow far; and in dry, clean, and open lands, sow triticum.'
Our wedding-cake is the memorial of a practice, that bore a striking resemblance to, if it was not derived from, confarreatio, the form of marriage that had fallen into general disuse amongst the Romans in the time of Tiberius. Taking its name from the cake of far and mola salsa that was broken over the bride's head, confarreatio was attended with an incident that increases its resemblance to the way in which our ancestors used at their weddings objects symbolical of natural plentifulness.
The early Romans broke a cake of far and mola salsa (salted meal) over the bride's head, — a symbol of plentifulness, […]
Antonyms: close
near
Derived words: 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
far away
faraway
far be it
Far Cotton
far cry
far-famed
far far away
far-feeling
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
farreaching
far-reaching
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
Unincorporated Far West
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: extrem
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 極端 /极端
roman: jíduān
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 極 /极
roman: jí
lang: Finnish
word: äärimmäinen
lang: Finnish
word: ääri-
lang: French
word: extrême
lang: Portuguese
word: extremo
lang: Portuguese
word: extrema
lang: Romanian
word: extrem
lang: Spanish
word: extremo
lang: Swedish
word: ytterst
lang: Swedish
word: extrem