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far-fetched
[ fahr-fecht ]
adjective
- improbable; not naturally pertinent; being only remotely connected; forced; strained:
He brought in a far-fetched example in an effort to prove his point.
far-fetched
adjective
- improbable in nature; unlikely
Other Words From
- far-fetchedness farfetchedness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of far-fetched1
Example Sentences
Fortunes reversed and what was far-fetched yesterday was suddenly closer to fact.
When he first pitched it to me for The Dark Knight, I liked the thematic idea, but I found it possibly a little far-fetched.
But, in the case of the border kids, it turns out that those worries about diseases were not so far-fetched after all.
Nobody really expected leniency, but still there was hope because the charges against the journalists were so far-fetched.
Not everything on OITNB needs to be shades of gray, and to say the whole thing seemed far-fetched is an understatement.
And this sort of trouble (which I cannot avoid) unfortunately produces nothing when done but alembication and the far-fetched.
Only it seemed to me that these things tended in time to make the figures of speech on the signs sort of far-fetched.
He never uses a superfluous or a far-fetched word, never indulges in flowers, word-painting, or rhetorical trickery of any kind.
Does that seem a little far-fetched, a little as though we were trying to prove too much, with such vague words?
Thus far-fetched were the motives which the prince adduced to avoid touching upon the single one which really decided him.
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