Synonyms of far-offnext
: remote in time or space

Examples of far-off in a Sentence

many a young person has joined the military with the hope of traveling to far-off places the impossibility of predicting what life will be like in the far-off future
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That’s the state Supergirl is in when she is dragged into a local dispute on some far-off planet, defending the honor of an orphaned teenage girl, Ruthye (Eve Ridley); her parents were murdered by a brigand named Krem of the Yellow Hills (Matthias Schoenaerts). David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026 For Atlanta entrepreneur Sheniya Weems, artificial intelligence isn’t about far-off technology trends. Carson Bonner, AJC.com, 19 June 2026 Even worlds that are too far-off to broil could still suffer from having their atmospheres stripped away by the accretion disk’s copious emission of x-rays and other high-energy radiation. Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 June 2026 Drop the reference now and some of the old heads will nod and smile knowingly, before staring into some far-off place as awful memories of what once was play in their minds. Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 2 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for far-off

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of far-off was in the 15th century

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“Far-off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/far-off. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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far-off

adjective
ˈfär-ˈȯf
: remote in time or space

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