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FARFETCHED: Dictionary Entry and Meaning

Pronunciation:  'fâr'fecht

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  highly imaginative but unlikely; "a farfetched excuse"; "an implausible explanation"
 
 Synonyms: implausible, unlikely
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Far"fetched`\, a.
1. Brought from far, or from a remote place.
         Every remedy contained a multitude of farfetched and
         heterogeneous ingredients.            --Hawthorne.
2. Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or
   introduced; forced; strained.
 

 

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