"far-off" meaning in English

See far-off in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-far-off.wav [US] Forms: more far-off [comparative], most far-off [superlative]
Etymology: Univerbation of far off (adverb). Etymology templates: {{univ|en|far off<pos:adv>}} Univerbation of far off (adverb) Head templates: {{en-adj|-|more}} far-off (not generally comparable, comparative more far-off, superlative most far-off)
  1. Distant or remote (in space, or less commonly in time). Tags: not-comparable, usually Derived forms: Faroffistan Translations (distant or remote): отдалечен (otdalečen) (Bulgarian), दूरस्थ (dūrasth) (Hindi), messzi (Hungarian), távoli (Hungarian), etähäin (Ingrian), longinquus (Latin), que hila largo (Spanish), fjärran (Swedish), avlägsen (Swedish), warrije (Woiwurrung)

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "far off",
      "far off#English"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "far off<pos:adv>"
      },
      "expansion": "Univerbation of far off (adverb)",
      "name": "univ"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Univerbation of far off (adverb).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more far-off",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most far-off",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "more"
      },
      "expansion": "far-off (not generally comparable, comparative more far-off, superlative most far-off)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English univerbations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hindi translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Ingrian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Latin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Woiwurrung translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "Faroffistan"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Near-synonyms: far-flung, faraway, distant, remote; see also Thesaurus:distant"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              42,
              49
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Distant or remote (in space, or less commonly in time)."
      ],
      "id": "en-far-off-en-adj-mBRHHAVL",
      "links": [
        [
          "Distant",
          "distant#English"
        ],
        [
          "remote",
          "remote"
        ],
        [
          "space",
          "space"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "far-flung"
        },
        {
          "word": "faraway"
        },
        {
          "word": "distant"
        },
        {
          "word": "remote"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:distant",
          "word": "distant"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:distant",
          "word": "far"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:distant",
          "word": "far-flung"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:distant",
          "word": "far-off"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:distant",
          "word": "faraway"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:distant",
          "tags": [
            "derogatory"
          ],
          "word": "outlandish"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:distant",
          "word": "outlying"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:distant",
          "word": "out of the way"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:distant",
          "word": "remote"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "lang_code": "bg",
          "roman": "otdalečen",
          "sense": "distant or remote",
          "word": "отдалечен"
        },
        {
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "lang_code": "hi",
          "roman": "dūrasth",
          "sense": "distant or remote",
          "word": "दूरस्थ"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "lang_code": "hu",
          "sense": "distant or remote",
          "word": "messzi"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "lang_code": "hu",
          "sense": "distant or remote",
          "word": "távoli"
        },
        {
          "code": "izh",
          "lang": "Ingrian",
          "lang_code": "izh",
          "sense": "distant or remote",
          "word": "etähäin"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "lang_code": "la",
          "sense": "distant or remote",
          "word": "longinquus"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "lang_code": "es",
          "sense": "distant or remote",
          "word": "que hila largo"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "lang_code": "sv",
          "sense": "distant or remote",
          "word": "fjärran"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "lang_code": "sv",
          "sense": "distant or remote",
          "word": "avlägsen"
        },
        {
          "code": "wyi",
          "lang": "Woiwurrung",
          "lang_code": "wyi",
          "sense": "distant or remote",
          "word": "warrije"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-far-off.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/77/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-far-off.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-far-off.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/77/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-far-off.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-far-off.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "far-off"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Faroffistan"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "far off",
      "far off#English"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "far off<pos:adv>"
      },
      "expansion": "Univerbation of far off (adverb)",
      "name": "univ"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Univerbation of far off (adverb).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more far-off",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most far-off",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "more"
      },
      "expansion": "far-off (not generally comparable, comparative more far-off, superlative most far-off)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English univerbations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Hindi translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Ingrian translations",
        "Terms with Latin translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Woiwurrung translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Near-synonyms: far-flung, faraway, distant, remote; see also Thesaurus:distant"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              42,
              49
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Distant or remote (in space, or less commonly in time)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Distant",
          "distant#English"
        ],
        [
          "remote",
          "remote"
        ],
        [
          "space",
          "space"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "far-flung"
        },
        {
          "word": "faraway"
        },
        {
          "word": "distant"
        },
        {
          "word": "remote"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:distant",
          "word": "distant"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:distant",
          "word": "far"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:distant",
          "word": "far-flung"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:distant",
          "word": "far-off"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:distant",
          "word": "faraway"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:distant",
          "tags": [
            "derogatory"
          ],
          "word": "outlandish"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:distant",
          "word": "outlying"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:distant",
          "word": "out of the way"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:distant",
          "word": "remote"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-far-off.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/77/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-far-off.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-far-off.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/77/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-far-off.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-far-off.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "roman": "otdalečen",
      "sense": "distant or remote",
      "word": "отдалечен"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "lang_code": "hi",
      "roman": "dūrasth",
      "sense": "distant or remote",
      "word": "दूरस्थ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "distant or remote",
      "word": "messzi"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "distant or remote",
      "word": "távoli"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "lang_code": "izh",
      "sense": "distant or remote",
      "word": "etähäin"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "sense": "distant or remote",
      "word": "longinquus"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "distant or remote",
      "word": "que hila largo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "distant or remote",
      "word": "fjärran"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "distant or remote",
      "word": "avlägsen"
    },
    {
      "code": "wyi",
      "lang": "Woiwurrung",
      "lang_code": "wyi",
      "sense": "distant or remote",
      "word": "warrije"
    }
  ],
  "word": "far-off"
}

Download raw JSONL data for far-off meaning in English (4.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-10-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-10-01 using wiktextract (c1bb342 and 6f96ddf). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.