furthest
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1.0
- adjective
- /ˈfɜrðəst/
:
más lejano
- Lester, nonplussed, walked toward his corner office at the furthest end of the corridor.
- the furthest reaches
- the furthest point
I feel like his room is the furthest room away from the building work.
- I feel like his room is the furthest room away from the building work.
- And that's the furthest place from anything in the world.
- And somehow I ended up at the end of the number in the furthest downstage position.
- Both metal post stars and the the furthest, most distant galaxies are used to study the early universe.
- There's nothing of that's the furthest from the truth.
Examples
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A clear frontier does exist, about 400 yards to the west at its furthest point from the highway.
Academic text (1991) -
Then you chose the furthest parking spot possible, and people are looking at me.
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I feel like his room is the furthest room away from the building work.
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That was the furthest... furthest thing from my mind.
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"We thought we should go to the furthest point of need we could get to."
Blog text (7) -
We move fast through the banking hall to the furthest counter.
Fiction book (2001) -
And that's the furthest place from anything in the world.
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Inside, all was blackness, save for a ray of green light in the furthest recesses of the room.
Fiction book (1997) -
Right now, the Voyager spacecrafts are the furthest objects from Earth ever touched by human beings.
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The Voyager spacecraft is currently the furthest human-made object from Earth.
Synonyms
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2.8
Far away in space, not near you
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4.2
The farthest point or highest level of something
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4.2
Very far away in place or time
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1.0
At the greatest distance in space or time
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2.8
Far from here in place or time
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6.3
Distant places spread over a very wide area
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7.0
At the farthest or most extreme point
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4.1
Furthest away at the edge of a place or time
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6.7
At the farthest distance in space, time, or order
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1.0
For more time than anyone else
Most distant in place, time, or order
Farthest away from the center of something
At the far end of a row or shelf
Antonyms
How Far
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Furthest comes from far ('a great distance') plus -est ('most'), so as an adjective it describes the thing that is the most distant in space, time, or order.