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so far

so far adverb: until now; previously; yet.

Adverb

so far

  1. (idiomatic) Until now; previously; yet.
    • So far, nothing unusual has happened.
    • ―How are your driving lessons? ―So far, pretty good.
  2. (idiomatic) A limited distance, literal or metaphorical.
    • Don’t expect a long walk. You can only go so far in that direction.
    • As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC

so far meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Arabic

so far in Tamil

இது வரை, இதுகாறும், இம்மட்டும், ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட அளவு, தூரம் வரைக்கும்

so far in Urdu

so far
اب تک ab tak

so far in Malayalam

until now, up to now, up to this point
അത്രത്തോളം, അതുവരെ, ഇതുവരെ, ഏതത്പര്യന്തം, ഏതാവത്പര്യന്തം, ഇത്രയുംവരെ
up to a point, to a certain extent, to a degree
ഇതുവരെ, ഒരളവുവരെ, താവത്, ഒരു പരിധിവരെ, ഒരുഘട്ടംവരെ, ഒട്ടൊക്കെ

so far in Arabic

until now; previously; yet
حَتَّى الْآنَ ḥattā l-ʔāna
More languagesFewer languages
so far in Persian
تاکنون tâkonun

Synonyms of so far

5 more synonymsFewer synonyms

Origin of so far

Compound of so + far. Compare Dutch zo ver.

Words formed from so far

Questions about so far

What does so far mean?
So far means until now; previously; yet.
What is so far in Tamil?
So far in Tamil is இது வரை, இதுகாறும், இம்மட்டும். See So far meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is so far?
So far is an adverb.

Words near so far in the dictionary

  1. so as to
  2. so be it
  3. so called
  4. so crazy it just might work
  5. so crazy it might just work
  6. so far
  7. so far as
  8. so far so bad
  9. so far so good
  10. so help me
  11. so help me Bob

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: so far (page history and authors); so far (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اب تک (Urdu) (page history and authors); so far (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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.

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