far from

Definitions

1. 1

   In no way, Not at all.

   • Don't leave now: our task is far from complete!
   • My stay at the hotel was far from satisfactory.
   • The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
2. 2

   Not characteristic of, not likely to be done or thought by.

   • For kings are clouts that euery man ſhoots at, Our Crowne the pin that thouſands ſeeke to cleaue. Therefore in pollicie I thinke it good To hide it cloſe: a goodly Strategem, And far from any man that is a foole.
3. 3

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see far, from.

The neighborhood

• antonymby all meansantonym(s) of “in no way, not at all”
• antonymalmostantonym(s) of “not characteristic of”
• antonymnighantonym(s) of “not characteristic of”
• antonymnearantonym(s) of “not characteristic of”
• antonympene-antonym(s) of “not characteristic of”
• antonymquasi-antonym(s) of “not characteristic of”