FURTHEST: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'furdhist
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- [adv] to the greatest distance in space or time (`farthest' is used more often than `furthest' in this physical sense); "see who could jump the farthest"; "chose the farthest seat from the door"; "he swam the furthest"
- [adv] to the greatest degree or extent or most advanced stage (`furthest' is used more often than `farthest' in this abstract sense); "went the furthest of all the children in her education"; "furthest removed from reality"; "she goes farthest in helping us"
- [adj] (comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order; "had traveled to the farthest frontier"; "don't go beyond the farthermost (or furthermost) tree"; "explored the furthest reaches of space"; "the utmost tip of the peninsula"
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| | Synonyms: | | far, farthermost, farthest, farthest, furthermost, utmost, uttermost |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Fur"thest\, a.
superl. Most remote; most in advance; farthest. See
{Further}, a.
\Fur"thest\, adv.
At the greatest distance; farthest.
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| | Related Terms: | | at the height, at the limit, extreme, far out, farthermost, farthest, farthest off, furthermost, greatest, most, most distant, outermost, outmost, radical, remotest, too much, ultimate, ultra, ultra-ultra, utmost, uttermost, way out |
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