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Date "FAR-FETCHED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Irrelation | Remote, far-fetched, out of the way, forced, neither here nor there, quite another thing; detached, segregate; disquiparant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: FAR-FETCHED |
| Specialty definitions using "FAR-FETCHED": Far fetched. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "FAR-FETCHED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FAR-FETCHED" is used about 102 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 102 | 32,309 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "FAR-FETCHED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξεζητημένος (bombastic, flowery, sophisticated, stilted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | túlzott (affectation, complacency, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extreme, foppish, immodest, inordinate, obsequiousness, obsequy, outre, over-anxious, overboard, overdone, over-excitement, overshot, steep), erőltetett (artificial, constrained, enforced, feigned, overwrought, stiff, strained). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | usannsynlig (improbable), søkt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ar-fetchedfay forçado (labored, laboured), rebuscado (affected, labored, laboured, mannered, miminy-piminy), artificial (affected, artificial, contrived), afetado (affected, bijou, conceited, coxcombical, dandified, dollish, finical, foppish, forced, fulsome, mannered, miminy-piminy, niminy-piminy, pompous, precious, pretentious, prim, scenic, scenical, smug, stilted, theatrical, wiredrawn). (various references) искусственный (artificial, factitious, made, made up, man-made, phantomlike, shoddy, synthetic, synthetical). (various references) långsökt (far fetched, far-sighted). (various references) ซึ่งไม่น่าเชื่อ. (various references) không tự nhiên (affected, affectedly, factitious, theatrical), gượng gạo (constrained). (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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