FAR-OFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does far-off mean? 

• FAR-OFF (adjective)
  The adjective FAR-OFF has 1 sense:

1. very far away in space or time

  Familiarity information: FAR-OFF used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAR-OFF (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very far away in space or time

Synonyms:

far-off; faraway

Context example:

far-off happier times

Similar:

far (located at a great distance in time or space or degree)

 Context examples 

In the not-so-far-off you will be happy that you have done all for her you love.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Another possible inspiration Proxima b could reignite: the admittedly far-off goal of sending a probe to another solar system.

(ESO Discovers Earth-Size Planet in Habitable Zone of Nearest Star, NASA)

Dust has a bad reputation because it gets in the way by absorbing and scattering the visible light from objects such as far-off galaxies and stars, making them difficult or impossible to observe with optical telescopes.

(All we are is dust in the interstellar wind, NSF)

They were so beautiful to him that he was impelled to save them to share with Ruth in some glorious, far-off time when he would dare to read to her what he had written.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Just as the sun was setting upon that melancholy night I saw the lonely figure of the Indian upon the vast plain beneath me, and I watched him, our one faint hope of salvation, until he disappeared in the rising mists of evening which lay, rose-tinted from the setting sun, between the far-off river and me.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What a picture rose before me of her sitting on the far-off shore, among the children like herself when she was innocent, listening to little voices such as might have called her Mother had she been a poor man's wife; and to the great voice of the sea, with its eternal Never more!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The ale-drinking, the rude good-fellowship, the heartiness, the laughter at discomforts, the craving to see the fight—all these may be set down as vulgar and trivial by those to whom they are distasteful; but to me, listening to the far-off and uncertain echoes of our distant past, they seem to have been the very bones upon which much that is most solid and virile in this ancient race was moulded.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)