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| far |
| 1. adj. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) Distant. | |
| A far land. | |
| 2. adj. Remote in space. | |
| He went to a far country. | |
| 3. adj. Remote in time. | |
| 4. adj. Long. | |
| It was a far adventure, full of danger. | |
| 5. adj. More remote or longer of two. | |
| He moved to the far end of the state. She remained at this end. | |
| 6. adj. Extreme. | |
| We are on the far right on this issue. | |
| 7. adj. Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character. | |
| 8. adj. (computing, not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture. | |
| far heap; far memory; far pointer | |
| 9. adv. Distant in space, time or degree. | |
| My house is quite far from the beach. The plan is good, but it is far from being flawless. | |
| 10. adv. To or from a great distance, time, or degree. | |
| You have all come far and you will go farther. | |
| 11. adv. (with a comparative) Very much. | |
| He was far richer than we'd thought. | |
| 12. n. Spelt (a type of wheat, Triticum spelta), especially in the context of Roman use of it. | |
| 13. n. (dialect) A litter of piglets; a farrow. | |
| distant |
| 1. adj. Far off (physically, logically or mentally). | |
| We heard a distant rumbling but didn't pay any more attention to it. She was surprised to find that her fiancé was a distant relative of hers. His distant look showed th | |
| 2. adj. Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings. | |
| Ever since our argument, she has been totally distant toward me. | |
