farfetched

Meanings

• Adjective

  Improbable or unbelievable.

  - "The idea that aliens built the pyramids is a farfetched theory."
  - "His explanation for why the car was totaled in a empty parking lot was farfetched."

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Synonyms

impractical , outlandish , wild

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with farfetched
fetch , hetch , etch , watch

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Variants

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far-fetched , farfetched , farfetchedness , farfetchednesses

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Etymology

origin and the way in which meanings have changed throughout history.

Originally meaning 'fetched from afar', farfetched came to mean 'improbable' or 'unbelievable' in the late 1500s.

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Trivia

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1. The word 'farfetched' comes from the Middle English word 'fetchen', which means 'to fetch' or 'to bring'.

2. The longest farfetched word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which means a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine silica particles.

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Related Concepts

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1. Unlikely: Synonym for farfetched, meaning not likely to happen or not probable.

2. Improbable: Synonym for farfetched, meaning not likely to be true or not believable.

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Culture

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Farfetched has been used in literature and art to describe implausible or unbelievable situations, characters, or ideas. For example, in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Masque of the Red Death', the protagonist's attempts to escape the plague are described as farfetched.

How to Memorize "farfetched"

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   - Visualize a scenario that is unlikely or impossible, such as an elephant flying over the rainforest.

2. associate
   

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3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic device by remembering the word's meaning with a memorable phrase, such as 'Farfetched means something that's fetched from a far-off place, but it's not believable.'

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