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Distant vs Farmost - What's the difference?

distant | farmost |

As adjectives the difference between distant and farmost

is that distant is far off (physically, logically or mentally) while farmost is most distant; farthest.

distant

English

Alternative forms

* distaunt (obsolete) * dystant (obsolete) * dystaunt (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
  • Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.

    • Related terms

    * distance * equidistant

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    farmost

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Most distant; farthest.
    • A spacious cave within its farmost part. — Dryden.
    (Webster 1913)