far-off
See also: far off
English
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]far-off (comparative more far-off, superlative most far-off)
- Remote, either in time or space.
- 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:
- 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.
Synonyms
[edit]- (remote in space): distant, far; see also Thesaurus:distant