Farfetched

Evidence that the above example is farfetched can be seen by comparing the total occurrences of component X.

All you do is string together a bunch of farfetched ideas. I can't understand a word of it.

It sounded too farfetched.

That sounds terribly farfetched.

Herscher says he has gotten ideas from the drawings of farfetched machines by the late American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, whose name is associated in the United States with preposterous complexity.