far

1. 1

   Distant; remote in space.

   • He went to a far land.
2. 2

   Remote in time.

   • the far far future
3. 3

   Long.

   • I have such a long way to go but yet I have come such a far piece already
4. 4

   More remote of two.

   • 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.
5. 5

   Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.

   • They are on the far right on this issue.
6. 6

   Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.

   • 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?
7. 7

   Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.not-comparable

   • far heap; far memory; far pointer

ant. close · near

1. 1

   To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.

   • You have all come far and you will go further.
   • He built a time machine and travelled far into the future.
2. 2

   Very much; by a great amount.

   • He was far richer than we'd thought.
   • The expense far exceeds what I expected.

1. 1

   To send far away.raretransitive

   • But I wish he'd been farred before he ever came near this house, with his “Please Betty” this, and “Please Betty” that, and drinking up our new milk as if he'd been a cat. I hate such beguiling ways.
   • […] so Joe come to me and he uz sore as a boil and said you goddam prevert, I don't want no twenny-two-year-old mechanic who still pulls his pood in the toilet, and farred me.

1. 1

   Emmer (a type of wheat), especially in the context of Roman use of it.uncountable

   • 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.'

1. 1

   A litter of piglets; a farrow.UKdialectal