Faraway
//ˈfɑɹəweɪ// adj, noun
adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who lives a great distance away.
"The Neighbors, the enviros, the real and the want-to-be cowpokes, the locals and the faraways, the rich and the wishful, the purported miners all said they wanted to buy out Braden."
Adjective
- 1 Distant. not-comparable
"She lived in a faraway village in a faraway land."
- 2 Not mentally present, as when daydreaming. not-comparable
"There was a faraway look on his face."
Adjective
- 1 very far away in space or time wordnet
- 2 far removed mentally wordnet
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"We have a saying to the effect that a good neighbor is better than a faraway relative."
Etymology
Univerbation of far + away.
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