Far-flung

Quick meaning: Far-flung is an adjective meaning Distant or remote in relationship, space, or time.

Meaning

Distant or remote in relationship, space, or time.

More Meanings

1. Widely distributed, wide-ranging, or widespread.
2. Widely but sparsely distributed.

Example Sentences

God of our fathers, known of old, / Lord of our far-flung battle-line, / […] / Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, / Lest we forget—lest we forget!

In the spacious laboratories and offices […] are provided not only centralised chemical research facilities for the far-flung London area, but also accommodation for the national headquarters of the B.R. Chemical Services, […]

In her introductory essay, editor Carole Vance acknowledges the problem of women's status as an "understudied group." She invites both careful and far-flung conversation about sex and difference, and urges s to resist making generalizations based on an incomplete dialogue.

Introduced in the 1960s, Motorail was successful at a time when long-distance travel by car was a time-consuming process because of a lack of motorways. Services, both during the day and at night, ran to such far-flung places on the map as Penzance, Fishguard, Inverness and Fort William.

Word Forms

• farther-flung
• farthest-flung

Synonyms for far-flung

Depending on context, synonyms include far-off, outlying, distant, far, outlandish, out of the way.

Antonyms for far-flung

Common opposites include citerior, close, immediate, near, nearby, nigh.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include distant, widespread, distributed, far-off, remote, outermost.

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