FAR BETWEEN

Definition: FAR BETWEEN

FAR BETWEEN

1. With a long distance (of space or time) between; at long intervals. ``The examinations are few and far between.'' --Farrar.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Disjunction

Adjective: disjoined; Verb: discontinuous; multipartite, abstract; disjunctive; secant; isolated; Verb: insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free; unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected; distinct; adrift; straggling; rift, reft.

Fewness

Adjective: few; scant, scanty; thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered, spotty, few and far between, exiguous; infrequent; rari nantes; hardly any, scarcely any; to be counted on one's fingers; reduced; Verb: unrepeated.

Infrequency

Scarce as hen's teeth; one in a million; few and far between.

Interval

Adjective: with an interval, far between; breachy, rimose, rimulose.

Crosswords: FAR BETWEEN

Are few and far between ("Mama He's Crazy"; performing artist: The Judds)

May your trouble be like the old man's teeth: few and far between. (references; author: unknown)

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Gas stations are few and far between Bush plane operations in Alaska. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

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How far between towns?

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Expression using "FAR BETWEEN": few and far between. Additional references.

Albanian

i rrallë (curious, infrequent, out of the way, rare, scarce, singular, sparse, stray, thin, uncommon, unwonted). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نادر (anecdotic, close, exceptional, exceptive, few and far between, infrequent, out of the ordinary, phenomenal, rare, recherche, scarce, tight, uncommon, unusual). (various references)

Bulgarian 

който се случва рядко. (various references)

Czech

řídký (few and far between, infrequent, rare, runny, scarce, sparse, tenuous, thin, washy). (various references)

Finnish

sellaisia miehiä on harvassa (such men are few and far between). (various references)

German

ganz vereinzelt (few and far between). (various references)

Hebrew 

מועטים מאו�" (few and far between), � �"ירים (few and far between). (various references)

Manx

foddey veih my cheilley (distal). (various references)

Pig Latin

arfay etweenbay

Romanian

rar (choice, exceptional, infrequent, lank, lanky, occasionally, rare, scanty, scarce, scattered, seldom, slowly, sparse, thin, thinly, uncommon, unusual), la intervale mãri. (various references)

Russian 

редкий (far-between, infrequent, occasional, out of print, rare, scarce, sparse, thin, uncommon, unusual). (various references)

Spanish

grandes intervalos. (various references)

Thai

น้อยมาก (bare, few and far between). (various references)

Turkish

seyrek olarak (few and far between, infrequently, rarely), nadiren (every once in a while, few and far, occasional, once in a while, rarely, seldom, uncommonly), kırk yılda bir (few and far, once in a blue moon, once in a lifetime). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: tenebrae.

-3 letters: between, webfeet.

-4 letters: afreet, atween, banter, beaten, beater, befret, berate, bereft, beware, entera, entree, eterne, fawner, feater, neater, rebate, retene, teener, wafter, wanter, weaner.

-5 letters: after, antre, arete, beret, brant, brawn, brent, eaten, eater, enate, enter, etwee, fewer, frena, newer, ranee, renew, rente, rewan, rewet, taber, tawer, terne, treen, tween, wafer, water.