FARTHEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does farthest mean? 

• FARTHEST (adjective)
  The adjective FARTHEST has 1 sense:

1. (comparatives of 'far') most remote in space or time or order

  Familiarity information: FARTHEST used as an adjective is very rare.

• FARTHEST (adverb)
  The adverb FARTHEST has 2 senses:

1. to the greatest distance in space or time ('farthest' is used more often than 'furthest' in this physical sense)

2. to the greatest degree or extent or most advanced stage ('furthest' is used more often than 'farthest' in this abstract sense)

  Familiarity information: FARTHEST used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FARTHEST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(comparatives of 'far') most remote in space or time or order

Synonyms:

farthermost; farthest; furthermost; furthest; utmost; uttermost

Context example:

the utmost tip of the peninsula

Similar:

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

Domain usage:

comparative; comparative degree (the comparative form of an adjective or adverb)

• FARTHEST (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To the greatest distance in space or time ('farthest' is used more often than 'furthest' in this physical sense)

Synonyms:

farthest; furthest

Context example:

he swam the furthest

Sense 2

Meaning:

To the greatest degree or extent or most advanced stage ('furthest' is used more often than 'farthest' in this abstract sense)

Synonyms:

farthest; furthest

Context example:

she goes farthest in helping us

 Context examples 

The mass of the seventh and farthest exoplanet has not yet been estimated — scientists believe it could be an icy, "snowball-like" world, but further observations are needed.

(NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star, NASA)

Scientists have uncovered a rare relic from the early universe: the farthest known supermassive black hole.

(Most Distant Black Hole, NASA)

Voyager is the farthest human-made probe from Earth, and the first to enter the vast sea between stars.

(Sun sends more 'tsunami waves' to Voyager 1, NASA)

It is also the farthest known neutron star.

(NuSTAR Helps Find Universe's Brightest Pulsars, NASA)

And there, beneath that farthest hill, which rises with such grandeur, is our cottage.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

To understand the concept of resonance, consider Jupiter's moons Io, Europa and Ganymede, which is the farthest out of the three.

(Astronomers Confirm Orbital Details of TRAPPIST-1’s Least Understood Planet, NASA)

The team also discovered that some coccolithophore species thrive deep below the surface near the farthest reaches of sunlight — within or just above an ocean layer called "Sub-Antarctic mode water."

(Study reveals changing patterns in globally important algae, National Science Foundation)

We had thus proceeded for about half a mile and were approaching the brow of the plateau when the man upon the farthest left began to cry aloud, as if in terror.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The island already lay like a cloud behind them, while right in front was St. Alban's Head, with Portland looming mistily in the farthest distance.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The larger part of a hollow organ that is farthest away from the organ's opening.

(Fundus, NCI Dictionary)