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FARTHEST
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(comparatives of 'far') most remote in space or time or order
Example:
the utmost tip of the peninsula
Synonyms:
farthermost; farthest; furthermost; furthest; utmost; uttermost
Classified under:
Similar:
far (located at a great distance in time or space or degree)
Domain usage:
comparative; comparative degree (the comparative form of an adjective or adverb)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To the greatest distance in space or time ('farthest' is used more often than 'furthest' in this physical sense)
Example:
he swam the furthest
Synonyms:
farthest; furthest
Classified under:
Sense 2
Meaning:
To the greatest degree or extent or most advanced stage ('furthest' is used more often than 'farthest' in this abstract sense)
Example:
she goes farthest in helping us
Synonyms:
farthest; furthest
Classified under:
Context examples:
Situated farthest from a point of reference.
(Distal, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Situated farthest from a point of attachment or origin, as of a limb or bone; or directed away from the midline of the body.
(Distal, NCI Thesaurus)
Eating was farthest from his desire, and he wondered that he should ever have been hungry in his life.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Keep in mind that Pluto is the planet found farthest from Earth in the solar system.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Four arms spring from its summit: the nearest town to which these point is, according to the inscription, distant ten miles; the farthest, above twenty.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"I mean just that. You'd have a dead Dick inside one minute—two minutes at the farthest."
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The whole Brazilian plain seemed to lie beneath us, extending away and away until it ended in dim blue mists upon the farthest sky-line.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But on the second, or at farthest the third night after your arrival, you will probably have a violent storm.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
My brother and sister have promised us a visit in the spring, or summer at farthest, continued Mrs. Elton; and that will be our time for exploring.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Comets are chunks of ice and dust that orbit the sun, usually on highly elliptical orbits that carry them far beyond the orbit of Pluto at their farthest points.
(ESA, NASA’s SOHO Sees Bright Sungrazer Comet, NASA)
