"far-fetched" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: en-us-far-fetched.ogg , en-GB-far-fetched.ogg Forms: more far-fetched [comparative], farther-fetched [comparative, rare], further-fetched [comparative, rare], most far-fetched [superlative], farthest-fetched [rare, superlative], furthest-fetched [rare, superlative]
Rhymes: -ɛtʃt Head templates: {{en-adj|more|farther-fetched|further-fetched|comp2_qual=rare|comp3_qual=rare|sup2=farthest-fetched|sup2_qual=rare|sup3=furthest-fetched|sup3_qual=rare}} far-fetched (comparative more far-fetched or (rare) farther-fetched or (rare) further-fetched, superlative most far-fetched or (rare) farthest-fetched or (rare) furthest-fetched)
  1. (obsolete) Brought from far away. Tags: obsolete Synonyms: far fetched, farfetched
    Sense id: en-far-fetched-en-adj-sm5Qry6P
  2. Implausible; not likely; difficult to believe. Synonyms: outlandish, wild, impractical Translations (not likely): нацягнуты (nacjahnuty) (Belarusian), невероятен (neverojaten) (Bulgarian), пресилен (presilen) (Bulgarian), 牽強 (Chinese Mandarin), 牵强 (qiānqiǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), (chě) (Chinese Mandarin), 離譜 (Chinese Mandarin), 离谱 (lípǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), přitažený za vlasy (Czech), zavlasypřitažený (Czech), vergezocht (Dutch), bij de haren getrokken (Dutch), kaukaa haettu (Finnish), villi (Finnish), abracadabrant (French), tiré par les cheveux (French), à dormir debout (French), weit hergeholt (German), an den Haaren herbeigezogen (German), τραβηγμένο από τα μαλλιά (travigméno apó ta malliá) (Greek), valószínűtlen (Hungarian), túlzott (Hungarian), erőltetett (Hungarian), áibhéalach (Irish), strambo (Italian), strano (Italian), inverosimile (Italian), stiracchiato (Italian), de mal creire (Occitan), tirat pels cabels (Occitan), naciągany [masculine] (Polish), rebuscado (Portuguese), forçado (Portuguese), tras de păr (Romanian), наду́манный (nadúmannyj) (Russian), натегнут [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), nategnut [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), forzado (Spanish), traído por los pelos (Spanish), poco probable (Spanish), improbable (Spanish), inverosímil (Spanish), jalado de los pelos (Spanish), tirado de los pelos (Spanish), rocambolesco [masculine] (Spanish), långsökt (Swedish), مبالغہ آمیز (mubalgha Aamez) (Urdu), khiên cưỡng (Vietnamese)
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Alternative forms

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          "text": "When the honorable member chose to repeat a long list of grievances which he attempted to father upon the present Government, simply because some of the members of it belonged to the late administration, I think it was about the furthest fetched argument he could have got."
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          "text": "The idea that any new MZ could be a star of an international motorcycle show is even farther fetched, rather like a Fiat outshining a Ferrari.",
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    "Terms with Belarusian translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Occitan translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
    "Terms with Urdu translations",
    "Terms with Vietnamese translations"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more far-fetched",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "farther-fetched",
      "tags": [
        "comparative",
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "further-fetched",
      "tags": [
        "comparative",
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most far-fetched",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "farthest-fetched",
      "tags": [
        "rare",
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "furthest-fetched",
      "tags": [
        "rare",
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "more",
        "2": "farther-fetched",
        "3": "further-fetched",
        "comp2_qual": "rare",
        "comp3_qual": "rare",
        "sup2": "farthest-fetched",
        "sup2_qual": "rare",
        "sup3": "furthest-fetched",
        "sup3_qual": "rare"
      },
      "expansion": "far-fetched (comparative more far-fetched or (rare) farther-fetched or (rare) further-fetched, superlative most far-fetched or (rare) farthest-fetched or (rare) furthest-fetched)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection ii:",
          "text": "it may be, if like industry were used, those far fetched druggs would prosper as well with us, as in those countries, whence now we have them […].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Brought from far away."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Brought from far away."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He is full of far-fetched ideas to make money.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1876 July 13, Robert Stewart, \"Want of Confidence Motion.\" Parliamentary Debates (Queensland Legislative Assembly)",
          "text": "When the honorable member chose to repeat a long list of grievances which he attempted to father upon the present Government, simply because some of the members of it belonged to the late administration, I think it was about the furthest fetched argument he could have got."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993 March 11, Alan Cathcart, “MZ ON THE RISE”, in Cycle World:",
          "text": "The idea that any new MZ could be a star of an international motorcycle show is even farther fetched, rather like a Fiat outshining a Ferrari.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Implausible; not likely; difficult to believe."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Implausible",
          "implausible"
        ],
        [
          "likely",
          "likely"
        ],
        [
          "difficult",
          "difficult"
        ],
        [
          "believe",
          "believe"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "outlandish"
        },
        {
          "word": "wild"
        },
        {
          "word": "impractical"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛtʃt"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "far fetched"
    },
    {
      "word": "farfetched"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "nacjahnuty",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "нацягнуты"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "note": "прыцягнуты за вушы (prycjahnuty za vušy, literally “drawn by the ears”)",
      "sense": "not likely"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "neverojaten",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "невероятен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "presilen",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "пресилен"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "牽強"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qiānqiǎng",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "牵强"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chě",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "扯"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "離譜"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lípǔ",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "离谱"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "přitažený za vlasy"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "zavlasypřitažený"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "vergezocht"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "bij de haren getrokken"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "kaukaa haettu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "villi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "abracadabrant"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "tiré par les cheveux"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "à dormir debout"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "weit hergeholt"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "an den Haaren herbeigezogen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "travigméno apó ta malliá",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "τραβηγμένο από τα μαλλιά"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "valószínűtlen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "túlzott"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "erőltetett"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "áibhéalach"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "strambo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "strano"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "inverosimile"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "stiracchiato"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "de mal creire"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "tirat pels cabels"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "naciągany"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "rebuscado"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "forçado"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "tras de păr"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nadúmannyj",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "наду́манный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "note": "притя́нутый за́ у́ши (pritjánutyj zá úši, literally “drawn by the ears”)",
      "sense": "not likely"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "натегнут"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nategnut"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "forzado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "traído por los pelos"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "poco probable"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "improbable"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "inverosímil"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "jalado de los pelos"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "tirado de los pelos"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rocambolesco"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "långsökt"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "note": "притя́гнутий за ву́ха (prytjáhnutyj za vúxa, literally “drawn by the ears”)",
      "sense": "not likely"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "mubalgha Aamez",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "مبالغہ آمیز"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "not likely",
      "word": "khiên cưỡng"
    }
  ],
  "word": "far-fetched"
}

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