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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Far fetched Not closely connected; a remote conceit; as, "a far-fetched simile," a "far-fetched allusion." Also, obtained from a foreign or distant country, "quod rarum est, carum est." "The passionfor long, involved sentences ... and far-fetched conceits ... passed away, and a clearer and less ornate style became popular." - Lecky: English in the Eighteenth Century, vol. i. chap. i. p. 91. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
far fetched jewelry | 13 |
far fetched | 8 |
far fetched furniture | 2 |
far fetched hypothesis | 2 |
far fetched import | 2 |
far fetched seattle | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FAR FETCHED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i sjellë nga larg, i sforcuar (constrained, wry), i panatyrshëm (galvanic, grotesque, stagey, stagy, strained). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مجلوب من زمان بعيد, شاذ (aberrant, anomalous, atypical, bastard, bizarre, eccentric, erratic, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, freak, intriguing, irregular, monstrous, moonstruck, odd, off beat, outlandish, preternatural, prodigious, queer, rogue, scatty, singular, stupendous, thumping, wild), بعيد الإحتمال (improbable, unlikely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | невероятен (anecdotal, fabulous, improbable, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, tall, unbelievable, unlikely, unthinkable), пресилен (outre, recherche, strained), изсмукан от пръстите. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nepřirozený (contrived, factious, farfetched, hollow, unholy, unnatural). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | farfelu (airy fairy), impossible, de longue date. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | weithergeholt (farfetched), gesucht (seeked, sought, sought after, wanted), an den haaren herbeigezogen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | erõszakolt, erõltetett (constrained, overwrought, strained). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | forzato (constrained, forced). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arfay etchedfay forţat (constrained, forced, ghastly, strained), pedant (academic, academical, bookish, captious, censorious, dryasdust, inkhorn, milliner, opinioned, pedant, pedantic, pernickety, precise, precisian, prig, priggish, priggishly, prissy, prolix, punctilious, scholastic), artificial (artificial, artificially, factitious, false, fine-drawn, man-made, practised), afectat (affected, affectedly, Arty, curious, demure, demurely, euphuistic, finical, finicking, gushing, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, lackadaisical, La-di-da, mannered, miminy-piminy, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, preciously, pretty, primly, recherche, scenic, self conscious, stilted, studied, swollen, theatrical), adus de departe. (various references) неестественный (forced, stagy, unnatural), натянутый (strained, tense), надуманный (farfetched), притянутый за уши. (various references) napregnut (intent, pent up, strained). (various references) traído por los pelos. (various references) sökt (affected, sought), otrolig (fishy, improbable, incredible, tall, unbelievable, uncanny, unlikely), långsökt (far-fetched, far-sighted). (various references) zoraki (constrained, forced, forcedly, ghastly, stiff, strained, studied), doğal olmayan (unnatural). (various references) неприродний (affected, artificial, non-natural, strained, theatrical), натягнутий (extended, forced, non-natural, strained, tense, wire-drawn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: farfetched. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-f-f-h-r-t" | |
-1 letter: chaffered. | |
-2 letters: affected, affecter, detacher, fathered. | |
-3 letters: catered, cerated, chaffed, chaffer, charted, cheated, cheater, cheffed, crafted, created, defacer, draftee, earthed, effaced, effacer, faceted, feather, fetched, fetcher, fracted, hearted, hectare, reached, reacted, recheat, refaced, retched, reteach, teacher, terefah. | |
-4 letters: adhere, aether, affect, afreet, arched, carted, cerate, chafed, chafer, chared, cheder, crated, create, dafter, deafer, dearth. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-f-f-h-r-t" | |
+4 letters: farfetchedness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 41 52 46 45 54 43 48 45 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01000001 01010010 00100000 01000110 01000101 01010100 01000011 01001000 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F A R   F E T C H E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0041 0052 0046 0045 0054 0043 0048 0045 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)403552240395437423938 |
| 1. Usage: Commercial 2. Expressions: Internet 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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