Crossword clues for furthest
furthest
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Furthest \Fur"thest\, adv. At the greatest distance; farthest.
Further \Fur"ther\, a. compar. [Positive wanting; superl. Furthest.]
More remote; at a greater distance; more in advance; farther; as, the further end of the field. See Farther.
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Beyond; additional; as, a further reason for this opinion; nothing further to suggest.
Note: The forms further and farther are in general not differentiated by writers, but further is preferred by many when application to quantity or degree is implied.
Furthest \Fur"thest\, a. superl. Most remote; most in advance; farthest. See Further, a.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., formed as superlatives to further (adj. and adv.).
Wiktionary
a. 1 (en-superlativefar) 2 # most distant in time, space or degree. adv. 1 (en-superlative of far POS=adverb) 2 # To the greatest degree or extent, or to the most distant point in time or space.
WordNet
adj. (comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order; "had traveled to the farthest frontier"; "don't go beyond the farthermost (or furthermost) tree"; "explored the furthest reaches of space"; "the utmost tip of the peninsula" [syn: farthermost, farthest, furthermost, utmost, uttermost]
adv. to the greatest degree or extent or most advanced stage (`furthest' is used more often than `farthest' in this abstract sense); "went the furthest of all the children in her education"; "furthest removed from reality"; "she goes farthest in helping us" [syn: farthest]
to the greatest distance in space or time (`farthest' is used more often than `furthest' in this physical sense); "see who could jump the farthest"; "chose the farthest seat from the door"; "he swam the furthest" [syn: farthest]
Usage examples of "furthest".
As the catch bar reached its furthest point of backswing, he caught his breath, thrusting his hands out at the ready for the rush forward.
Running on till he had left the furthest Spanish station far to the south, he put into the Bay of Canoa in Lower California.
Wilson had taken the hand of Emily, and by her looks and solemn manner she had succeeded in alarming her niece, although Denbigh was yet furthest from the thoughts of Emily.
Between these two paradigms of repetition there extends the border of donjuanesque eroticism whose furthest poles represent both its stake and its impossibility.
My three friends assured me that, within one year at the furthest, the cases against me would be forgotten, and in Venice, when public opinion has forgotten anything, it can be easily arranged.
Griffin dropped into his office and wrote two memos: One was to the woman responsible for the seating arrangements, telling her to shift Leyster to the Borst-Campbell table and Salley to the furthest table from him.
But it hardly mattered, the blast and shock passing through the speeding torpedoes, vaporizing the one furthest behind, smashing the structural framing of the torpedo in the lead, the latter self-detonating in an explosion that was designed to rip open an enemy submarine hull but just dissipated outward in the waters of the Pacific.
All down the street in a long line the barbers stood behind their small stalls, and Wang Lung went to the furthest one and sat down upon the stool and motioned to the barber who stood chattering to his neighbor.
They strolled slowly, scarcely speaking till they reached the side furthest from the marquees, where the music reached them only faintly.
Robin and Evelyn inhabited unmapped regions to my left, along with kitchens by the square mile and, in its furthest reaches, the big room which had been allotted to Kris.
From Vinney Ridge to Rhinefield Walk the woods grow thick and dense up to the very edges of the track, but beyond the country opens up into broad dun-colored moors, flecked with clumps of trees, and topping each other in long, low curves up to the dark lines of forest in the furthest distance.
She was a great devotee, but women's piety easily gives place to pity, and she had moved to the furthest extremity of the bed with the intention of giving me another night of love.
At the furthest end of the room, sitting and seeming to stare directly at him, the lattice of its complex killing arms and limbs moving in baffling antiphase, its wings half-open in languorous threat, was a slake-moth.
Dread Souerayne Goddesse, that doest highest sitIn seate of iudgement, in th'Almighties stead,And with magnificke might and wondrous witDoest to thy people righteous doome aread,That furthest Nations filles with awfull dread,Pardon the boldnesse of thy basest thrall,That dare discourse of so diuine a read,As thy great iustice praysed ouer all:The instrument whereof loe here thy Artegall.
But her purpose in these jaunts had a more important application than a mental vacation for herself: she must also be certain that no unwelcome visitors approached the Nine Star League from deep space beyond Iota Aurigae, the furthest human colony from Earth.