Word.ws English Dictionary

far gone

far gone adjective: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see far, go, gone.

Adjective

far gone (comparative further gone or farther gone, superlative furthest gone or farthest gone)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see far, go, gone.
    • You're pretty far gone, pretty far gone You're clear out here in Ore-y-gone.1992, Tom Nash, Twilo Scofield, The Well-traveled Casket: A Collection of Oregon Folklife, page 25
  2. Almost entirely used up or elapsed.
    • […] the night is far gone, the day is near. Let us then lay aside the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 13:12
    • That there is not any greater Remedy for the Gout than drinking Water, not only by young, bult old Men; many of whom, he faith, have drank cold Water for many Weeks, which hath succeeded so well, though though they were far gone in Years , that they found great Ease thereby, without that Offence to...1739, John Smith, Gideon Crawfurd, The Curiosities of Common Water, page 19
  3. At an advanced stage of decline, disability or alteration, from some process, such as disease, decay, intoxication, infatuation, or moral weakness.
    • This mischief is remedied if the wine be not too far gone, and possess strength and body, by racking it into a cask just emptied of sound wine, and sulphured.1836, Cyrus Redding, A History and Description of Modern Wines, page 46
    • There is pardon for such a one — there is full pardon to those who are brought to repentance; but few of such men ever receive it; for when they are so far gone as to sin presumptuously, because they wish do it — to sin merely for the sake of showing their disregard for God and for God's law, we...1857, Charles H. Spurgeon, Presumptuous Sins

Examples of far gone in a sentence

  • “The first rapid survey of the enemy's position inclined me to attack his left, but the day was far gone,” McClellan wrote later.2012, David S. Hartwig, To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, page 515:
  • Their world is far gone in its cooling and this world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard as inferior animals.1897, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, page 42:
  • THERE the lovers -- if they ARE lovers!-- will have to mind.They'll feel it for themselves, unless things are too utterly far gone with them.1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl:
  • I was sleeping on a cot at the foot of Miss Olivia's bed, and I woke up suddenly to hear her breathing far gone in deep rest.1999, Reynolds Price, Roxanna Slade: A Novel, page 43:

Forms of far gone

comparativefurther gone
comparativefarther gone
superlativefurthest gone
superlativefarthest gone

Questions about far gone

What does far gone mean?
Far gone means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see far, go, gone.
How do you use far gone in a sentence?
“The first rapid survey of the enemy's position inclined me to attack his left, but the day was far gone,” McClellan wrote later.
What part of speech is far gone?
Far gone is an adjective.

Words near far gone in the dictionary

  1. far field
  2. far fields
  3. Far Forest
  4. far from
  5. far from it
  6. far gone
  7. Far Hills
  8. far left
  9. far leftist
  10. far leftists
  11. Far North

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: far gone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “far gone.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/far_gone. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.