Far-off

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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. 1
    very far away in space or time wordnet

Synonyms

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distantextimateextremefarfar flungfar-flung

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"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."

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