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| 1. | [ adverb ] to a considerable degree; very much | |
| Examples: | "a far far better thing that I do" "felt far worse than yesterday" "eyes far too close together" |
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| 2. | [ adverb ] at or to or from a great distance in space | |
| Examples: | "he traveled far" "strayed far from home" "sat far away from each other" |
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| 3. | [ adverb ] at or to a certain point or degree | |
| Examples: | "I can only go so far before I have to give up" "how far can we get with this kind of argument?" |
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| 4. | [ adjective ] at a great distance in time or space or degree | |
| Examples: | "we come from a far country" "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" |
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| Related terms: | near distant far-off faraway distant farther further outlying off_the_beaten_track off_the_beaten_track farthermost cold distance | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] being of a considerable distance or length | |
| Examples: | "a far trek" |
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| Related terms: | long | |
| 6. | [ adverb ] remote in time | |
| Examples: | "if we could see far into the future" "all that happened far in the past" |
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| 7. | [ adjective ] being the animal or vehicle on the right or being on the right side of an animal or vehicle | |
| Examples: | "the horse on the right is the far horse" "the right side is the far side of the horse" |
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| Related terms: | right | |
| 8. | [ noun ] (politics) a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to reinstitute Hutu control | |
| Synonyms: | army_for_the_liberation_of_rwanda former_armed_forces interahamwe alir | |
| Examples: | "in 1999 ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists" |
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| Related terms: | foreign_terrorist_organization Rwanda | |
| 9. | [ adverb ] to an advanced stage or point | |
| Examples: | "a young man who will go very far" |
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| 10. | [ adjective ] beyond a norm in opinion or actions | |
| Examples: | "the far right" |
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| Related terms: | immoderate | |
| Similar spelling: |
farther |
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