far-off

See also: far off

English

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Adjective

far-off (comparative more far-off, superlative most far-off)

1. 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

• (remote in space): distant, far; see also Thesaurus:distant

Translations

remote in space

• Bulgarian: отдалечен (bg) (otdalečen)
• Ingrian: etähäin
• Latin: longinquus
• Swedish: fjärran (sv), avlägsen (sv)