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Furthest   /fˈərθəst/   Listen
Furthest

adjective
1.
(comparatives of 'far') most remote in space or time or order.  Synonyms: farthermost, farthest, furthermost, utmost, uttermost.  "Don't go beyond the farthermost (or furthermost) tree" , "Explored the furthest reaches of space" , "The utmost tip of the peninsula"
adverb
1.
To the greatest degree or extent or most advanced stage ('furthest' is used more often than 'farthest' in this abstract sense).  Synonym: farthest.  "Furthest removed from reality" , "She goes farthest in helping us"
2.
To the greatest distance in space or time ('farthest' is used more often than 'furthest' in this physical sense).  Synonym: farthest.  "Chose the farthest seat from the door" , "He swam the furthest"






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"Furthest" Quotes from Famous Books



... advocates of freedom, who have had virtue and resolution enough to excite the opposition, and may imprison them during its pleasure in the remotest part of the Union; so that a citizen of Georgia might be bastiled in the furthest part of New Hampshire; or a citizen of New Hampshire in the furthest extreme of the South, cut off from their family, their friends, and their every connexion. These considerations induced me, sir, to give my ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... head of the War Office. Father kept harping on, especially at luncheon, when Barnabas was there, to find out why they fled to Rosnacree. Rose, the under housemaid, told me that it came out in the end that Lady Isabel simply went to the man at Euston station and asked for a ticket to the furthest off place he sold tickets to. This, may be true. Rose heard it from Mrs. Geraghty, who came up every day to hook Lady Torrington's back. But I doubt it myself. There must be further off places than Rosnacree, though, of course, not many. At one time ...
— Priscilla's Spies 1912 • George A. Birmingham

... milestone-post that stood in the window of the drawing-room, with the following inscription:—'If you walk sixty-eight times round this drawing-room you will have gone a mile; if you walk eighty-seven times from the furthest corner of the parlour to the right-hand corner of the billiard-room, you will have gone a mile,' and so on. But what most of all impressed a guest at the house for the first time was the immense collection of pictures hanging on the walls, for the ...
— A Desperate Character and Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev

... trifling misunderstanding, they were in perfect accord. The sun was setting by this time and the Abbe Bordier's shadow, grotesquely elongated, danced up and down the sandy floor of the shed, while the old, broken voice declaimed tags of verse that echoed to the furthest recesses of the court. But Jean Servien was smiling at the vision only his eyes could see of Gabrielle, the ...
— The Aspirations of Jean Servien • Anatole France

... abandoned by the Church!—that August Power in whose hands is lodged the fate of the human race; whose scepter stretches beyond the furthest constellation that twinkles in the sky; whose authority is over millions that live and over the billions that wait trembling in purgatory for ransom or doom; whose smile opens the gates of heaven to you, whose frown delivers you to the fires of everlasting hell; a Power ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


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