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Adverb
far from (not comparable)
- In no way, Not at all.
Don't leave now: our task is far from complete!
My stay at the hotel was far from satisfactory.
2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
- Not characteristic of, not likely to be done or thought by.
c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iv:For kings are clouts that euery man ſhoots at,
Our Crowne the pin that thouſands ſeeke to cleaue.
Therefore in pollicie I thinke it good
To hide it cloſe: a goodly Strategem,
And far from any man that is a foole.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see far, from.
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