far-flung

Adjective

far-flung (comparative more far-flung or further-flung or farther-flung, superlative most far-flung or furthest-flung or farthest-flung)

1. Distant or remote in relationship, space, or time.
   • God of our fathers, known of old, / Lord of our far-flung battle-line, / […] / Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, / Lest we forget—lest we forget!1897 July 17, Rudyard Kipling, “[Service Songs] Recessional”, in The Five Nations, London: Methuen and Co. […], published September 1903, →OCLC, page 214
   • Introduced in the 1960s, Motorail was successful at a time when long-distance travel by car was a time-consuming process because of a lack of motorways. Services, both during the day and at night, ran to such far-flung places on the map as Penzance, Fishguard, Inverness and Fort William.2020 March 11, Daniel Puddicombe, “Analysis: Little Prospect of Bringing Back Motorail … for Now”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32

   Synonyms:

   far-off, outlying, distant, far, faraway, outlandish, out of the way, remote

   Antonyms:

   around the corner, citerior, close, close by, immediate, near, nearby, nigh, present, propinquitous

2. Widely distributed, wide-ranging, or widespread.
   • In the spacious laboratories and offices […] are provided not only centralised chemical research facilities for the far-flung London area, but also accommodation for the national headquarters of the B.R. Chemical Services, […]1960 June, “Talking of Trains: New B.R. Research Laboratory”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 328
   • In her introductory essay, editor Carole Vance acknowledges the problem of women's status as an "understudied group." She invites both careful and far-flung conversation about sex and difference, and urges s to resist making generalizations based on an incomplete dialogue.1985 February 2, Janice Irvine, Sue Hyde, “The Discourse and the Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 28, page 8

   Synonyms:

   common, ubiquitous, disseminated, extensive, pervasive, predominant, prevailing, prevalent, regnant, rife

3. Widely but sparsely distributed.

   Synonyms:

   scattered, dispersed