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Far

adverb

1.

To a considerable degree; very much. "Felt far worse than yesterday" , "Eyes far too close together"

2.

At or to or from a great distance in space. "Strayed far from home" , "Sat far away from each other"

3.

At or to a certain point or degree. "How far can we get with this kind of argument?"

4.

Remote in time. "All that happened far in the past"

5.

To an advanced stage or point.

adjective

(farther and farthest are used as the compar. and superl. of far, although they are corruptions arising from confusion with further and furthest)

1.

Located at a great distance in time or space or degree. "Far corners of the earth" , "The far future" , "A far journey" , "The far side of the road" , "Far from the truth" , "Far in the future" Antonym: near.

2.

Being of a considerable distance or length.

3.

Being the animal or vehicle on the right or being on the right side of an animal or vehicle. "The right side is the far side of the horse"

4.

Beyond a norm in opinion or actions.

noun

1.

A terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again. Synonyms: ALIR, Army for the Liberation of Rwanda, Former Armed Forces, Interahamwe.

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— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... we all went to bed, full of thankfulness that it had ended as well as it did, but, alas! not, so far as I was concerned, to rest in peace. In about two hours I was awakened by a tremendous weight of water suddenly descending upon me and flooding the bed. I immediately sprang out, only to find myself ...

— Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century • W. H. Davenport Adams

... whirls round, pulls his gun and fires into Mankeltow's face. I laid him out with my cleek automatically. Any one who shoots a friend of mine gets what's comin' to him if I'm within reach. He drops. Mankeltow rubs his neck with his handkerchief. The man the far side of the machine starts to run. Lundie down the ride, or it might have been Walen, shouts, "What's happened?" Mankeltow ...

— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling

... likely of occurrence in the remote posterity she vows she is for addressing after she has exhausted our present hungry generation. The posterity signified will, it is calculable, it is next to certain, have studied a developed human nature so far as to know the composition of it a not unequal mixture of the philosophic and the romantic, and that credible realism is to be produced solely by an involvement of those two elements. Or else, she may be sure, her ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... would bring contamination to a scholar's library. Scot was certainly not a scholar in the sense in which the term is applied to the Scaligers, Casaubons, and Vossius's, though he would have been considered a prodigy of reading in these days of superficial acquisition. But he had original gifts far transcending scholarship. He had a manly, straightforward, vigorous understanding, which, united with an honest integrity of purpose, kept him right when greater men went wrong. How invaluable a phalanx would the battalion of folios which the reign of James the first produced now afford us, ...

— Discovery of Witches - The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster • Thomas Potts

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