Far-off
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Remote, either in time or space.
"Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive, and wild - and perhaps with as respectable a meaning as the sound of bells in a Christian country."
Adjective
- 1 very far away in space or time wordnet
Example
More examples"Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms. Convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right."