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Farther   /fˈɑrðər/   Listen
Farther

adverb
1.
To or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage ('further' is used more often than 'farther' in this abstract sense).  Synonym: further.  "Let's not discuss it further" , "Nothing could be further from the truth" , "They are further along in their research than we expected" , "The application of the law was extended farther" , "He is going no farther in his studies"
2.
To or at a greater distance in time or space ('farther' is used more frequently than 'further' in this physical sense).  Synonym: further.  "Moved farther away" , "Farther down the corridor" , "The practice may go back still farther to the Druids" , "Went only three miles further" , "Further in the future"
adjective
1.
More distant in especially space or time.
2.
More distant in especially degree.  Synonym: further.  "Further from our expectations" , "Farther from the truth" , "Farther from our expectations"





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"Farther" Quotes from Famous Books



... exterminated them, being at least thirty to one. But the commanders of this fortunate detachment, immediately told Huascar that they would put him to death, if he did not instantly give orders to his army to retire: and at the same time assured him that his brother Atahualpa had no farther desire than to be permitted to enjoy the kingdom of Quito in peace, for which he would do homage to him as his king and lord. Huascar, terrified by the prospect of death, and believing their promise of restoration to liberty ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. IV. • Robert Kerr
... strained forward on the suitcase she was helping Hinpoha to carry down the hill and endeavored to catch up with the crowd, a proceeding which she soon acknowledged to be impossible, for Hinpoha, rendered breathless by the hasty scramble from the train, lagged farther behind with ...
— The Campfire Girls at Camp Keewaydin • Hildegard G. Frey
... Himself out in language that man can understand. God and man used to talk together freely. But one day man went away from God. And then he went farther away. He left home. He left his native land, Eden, where he lived with God. He emigrated from God. And through going away ...
— Quiet Talks about Jesus • S. D. Gordon
... with. In the "Latter-Day Pamphlets" he likened Christianity to a great tree, sprung from the seed of Nazareth, and since fed by the opulences of fifty generations; which now is perishing at the root, and sways to and fro ever farther and farther from the perpendicular; and which in the end must come down, and leave to those who found shelter beneath it and thought it infinite, a wholesome view of the upper eternal lights. And his contempt for controversial ...
— Arrows of Freethought • George W. Foote
... make a great effort to bring it back, and to open my eyes, because if I don't you think I'm ill. You don't mind if I shut them now, do you?—because I've explained about them, and holding them open does tire me so. I wish they could be propped open. And—my mind gets farther and further away every day. I hope you and Rachel won't think I am giving way if—sometime—I really can't bring it ...
— Red Pottage • Mary Cholmondeley


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