far-off en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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Remote, either in time or space.
Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive, and wild - and perhaps with as respectable a meaning as the sound of bells in a Christian country.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 209:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most far-off | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more far-off | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Synonyms
far · distant (remote in space)
Translations (10)
es que hila largo (remote in space) · hi दूरस्थ (remote in space) · wyi warrije (remote in space) · bg отдалечен (remote in space) · hu messzi (remote in space) · izh etähäin (remote in space) · sv avlägsen (remote in space) · sv fjärran (remote in space) · hu távoli (remote in space) · la longinquus (remote in space)