far-off
[fahr-awf, -of]
- distant; remote.
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Origin of far-off
First recorded in 1580–90
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Contemporary Examples
But the two of them are enthusiastic supporters of getting the human race to far-off stars.
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November 14, 2014
There were long brown mountains and a few pines and far-off forests of beech-trees on some of the mountainsides.
But a day focused on the continued violence against LGBT people in far-off places?
Americans Celebrating Our LGBT Victories Need To Be More Cognizant That Elsewhere, Repression Is WinningJay Michaelson
May 17, 2014
It's already out there, waiting for you just outside of some far-off hospital maternity ward.
Since Krypton is dying, Jor-El plots to send his newborn to a far-off planet and settles on earth.
Historical Examples
Wonderful are the accounts he brings of that far-off world, where his spirit wanders.
PhilotheaLydia Maria Child
The idea filled them all with respect for that far-off past.
They usually appeared to him like grey seas that spoke to him of far-off countries.
The Fat and the ThinEmile Zola
This abstraction is the far-off heaven on which the eye of the mind is fixed in fond amazement.
SymposiumPlato
That far-off island, the poor lepers, and then lifelong banishment.
The ChristianHall Caine
far-off
- remote in space or time; distant
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Word Origin and History for far-off
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