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farfetched

farfetched is the alternative form of far-fetched.

Meaning of far-fetched

Adjective

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

  1. (obsolete) Brought from far away.
    • 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 […].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...
  2. Implausible; not likely; difficult to believe.
    • He is full of far-fetched ideas to make money.

Forms of farfetched

comparativemore farfetched
superlativemost farfetched

Questions about farfetched

What is farfetched the alternative form of?
Farfetched is the alternative form of far-fetched.

Words near farfetched in the dictionary

  1. Farfans
  2. farfara
  3. farfel
  4. farfet
  5. farfetch
  6. farfetched
  7. farfetchedly
  8. farfetchedness
  9. farfetches
  10. Farfor
  11. farforth

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