1attributive Situated at the greatest distance from a specified or understood point.

1. 1.1 Covering the greatest area or distance.
   his record for the farthest flight

   Example sentencesExamples

   • That is, they had the javelin, they had the discus, and the winner was the person who threw the javelin or the discus the farthest distance.
   • People will be asked to pay £1 to guess the furthest distance a balloon will travel over three weeks following the release.
   • It is so easy to get around the farthest distances, thanks to their train and tram network that connects even the remotest suburbs with the City Loop.
   • Teams from schools across the country designed and built their own cars with the aim of attaining the furthest distance they could within six hours.
   • The person who guessed the furthest distance travelled by a balloon will win the opportunity to have a personalised message flown by plane over the house of whoever they choose.
   • There is also a £10 prize for the person who finds and returns the balloon which is calculated to have travelled the furthest distance from the show.
   • The Rawcliffe Primary School pupil learned to swim last Easter and it was the furthest distance she had ever tackled.
   • The Flyathon event, which starts at 2.30 pm, will invite people to throw their plane the furthest distance.
   • The rules are simple - the plane that flies the furthest distance wins.
   • He even beats the MP for Orkney and Shetland, Alistair Carmichael, who has to travel by plane between different islands and has the furthest distance to travel to Westminster.
   • Yet, incredibly, this is not the furthest distance he has ever covered, having run 1,150 miles in 18 consecutive days some 20 years ago.
   • We talked about its weight, its price and the furthest distance he's gone in one flight.
   • Nicola Gunn and the Desolation Angels Company of Melbourne, Australia came the furthest distance to attend the Calgary fringe, and audiences were glad they did.
   • On the water 16 countries will line up with Melbourne University Rowing Club from Australia having travelled the furthest distance to compete.
   • I have only run once in the last three weeks and the furthest distance I have ever covered is 8.3 miles, the last mile and a bit of which I had to walk.
   • The geography of Cumbria, appealing though it is to tourists and landscape painters, is not conducive to assembling a rugby team for midweek winter practice, though we salute the commitment of those who travel furthest.
   • We'll take off from Albuquerque, and the object is to fly the farthest distance.
   • The record for the furthest distance flown had been held by Brian Jones and Bertrand Piccard, who were the first pilots to circumnavigate the world, non-stop, in a balloon in 1999.
   • Kath plays with Blackburn Hockey Club once a week, but has taken to running five times a week, clocking up her furthest distance of 16 miles.
   • Fly In, the furthest flights will win high value prices
   • Nathan Cohen can possibly claim he has come the furthest distance.
2. 1.2 Extremely remote.
   the farthest ends of the earth

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   • His rein stretches not only from the farthest reaches of outer space but deep into the personal lives of every man, woman, and child on the twelve colonized worlds.
   • To fulfil his task, Enoch travels to the farthest extremes of the earth, encountering fantastic columns of fire and trees of judgment, seeing the storehouses of the winds and the mountains where thunder is kept.
   • The scientists who work with these tiniest of raw materials see a world just as mesmerizing as those who study the farthest reaches of outer space.
   • Such anti-realist, sometimes anti-content arguments have been taken to their furthest extreme in discussions of screen violence.
   • How, if Christie wrote such rubbish, can we explain the fact that her works have resonated even at the farthest extremes of geography and history?
   • Contained on this little slab of orange coloured vinyl are two absolute gems for those of you who like to push your adventurous listening to the furthest extremes of dissonance; once you hear it, you'll be hooked like a kid on a sugar rush.
   • At the furthest extreme of the preservationist end of the spectrum is what used to be called the appropriate technology movement and now is sometimes called the neo-Luddite movement.
   • Well, it's not difficult to get fizzy drinks to the furthest, you know, reaches of Africa.
   • At the age of 16 he decided to get out of town in the most extreme way possible, and went to the furthest corner of the United States.
   • I mean, this pushes the farthest extremes of dissent.
   • That is, all hydrogen atoms - whether here on Earth or in the farthest reaches of outer space - have only a single proton in their nucleus.
   • And then we go to the furthest extreme, and that is the other with the capital ‘O.’
   • If he wanted to really challenge assimilationism, he should not have chosen as his target the furthest extremes of the movement.

   Synonyms

   most distant, most remote, remotest, farthest away, furthest away, furthermost, farthermost

1At or by the greatest distance (used to indicate how far one thing or person is or becomes distant from another)

2Over the greatest distance or area.

1. 2.1 Used to indicate the most distant point reached in a specified direction.
   it was the farthest north I had ever traveled

   Example sentencesExamples

   • At the very moment we'd reached the point furthest from home, the sky opened and heaven dropped on us, a drop at a time.
   • That's the furthest north I've ever been, but I couldn't stay up there too long.
   • Knockhill is actually the furthest north the BTCC goes but according to Batchelor it could have been worse.
   • Afterwards he sailed on to reach 68° south, which was at the time the furthest southern latitude attained by any sailing trip, before having to turn back.
   • Bend your right knee and lean forward from your hips as you extend your left arm behind you and reach your right hand forward to touch the cone farthest to your left.
   • The summer solstice on June 21 marks the first day of astronomical summer in the northern hemisphere, and is the time when the sun rises and sets furthest north and casts the shortest shadow at midday.
   • The division rear area was the farthest forward the MASH or the CSH could be deployed.
   • The furthest north a southern right had been sighted was Hervey Bay, on the central Queensland coast, but Mr Harrison said they would be sighted further and further north as their numbers grew.
   • We were heading down the classic 13 kilometre ‘Derby’ run to Küblis, the furthest of the traditional villages reached by these long, celebrated ski routes.
   • That would probably explain why the furthest I've ever gotten with a guy was a slow dance… the literal kind.
   • You pick those clones that stick to the probe, and analyze them to see which extends furthest in the direction you want to go.
   • These are two homes that are - you can see one of them, the furthest one to the north, is starting to get fully involved.
   • Until recently, the furthest confirmed inland location was Napa County.
   • HM ships Example, Explorer and Archer sailed the furthest West when they reached Howth, Cork and Galway in the Republic of Ireland.
   • It was the furthest we had gone from our area and we got a really good reaction.
   • He walks to the furthest point he reached yesterday, then begins, striding past the small, neat houses with their frosty lawns.
   • The dukedom furthest to the north was Northfield, famous for its horses.
   • If St John's Wood is the furthest north he'll go, then we've no chance.
   • The George Washington chapter, founded in the early 1960s, was the farthest north the fraternity ever reached.
   • Another in 1853 spread to Chicago and St. Louis where itinerant railroad workers took it to Iowa City, which is the furthest the railroad had reached.
2. 2.2 To the most extreme or advanced point.
   countries where industrialization had gone furthest

   the farthest he'll go is to admit a sort of resentment

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Israel, Turkey, and the states of North Africa are furthest along this path.
   • Of the three, Globe has come the farthest, with a revitalized main street, arts center, archaeological park, and some of the best Mexican food in the state.
   • Perhaps it was only a tactic, but it was the furthest a nationalist hand had ever reached out towards acceptance of the Six Counties as a political entity.
   • I currently have it all written into a notebook and it is the farthest I have ever gotten on an individual project, so I really think I'm going to make it to the very end of this without fizzling out.
   • They may have come back the farthest this season because it looked as if their careers might be over.
   • What is clear from her book is that southern towns and cities went furthest in the direction of a tax-supported professional patrol.
   • In 1614 Bacon started to write a book about an imagined society that had reached the furthest imaginable point in the advancement of knowledge.
   • Such forms of cooperation commonly take place among the developed OECD countries but it is the members of the European Union that have gone farthest in that direction.
   • Which of the fighters has come the farthest the fastest in attitude and technique?
   • He maintains that Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan are already virtual states and that among major developed countries the United States has advanced the farthest.
   • You have made it the farthest of any who have tried for the Amulets, let's see if you make this last test.
   • He said that the furthest the courts had gone in the specific area of giving advice to employees in connection with their pension rights was in Scally itself which provided no support for the complainant's case.