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FAR CRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A disappointing disparity
Example:
it was a far cry from what he had expected
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("far cry" is a kind of...):
disparity (inequality or difference in some respect)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Distance estimated in terms of the audibility of a cry
Example:
it's a far cry from here
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("far cry" is a kind of...):
farawayness; farness; remoteness (the property of being remote)
