farfrom (notcomparable)

1. In no way, Not at all.

   Don't leave now: our task isfar from complete!

   My stay at the hotel wasfar from satisfactory.

   • 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, inThe Economist, volume411, number8892:

     The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts isfar from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason.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. Notcharacteristic of, notlikely to be done or thought by.
   • c.1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe],Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published1592,→OCLC; reprinted asTamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press,1973,→ISBN,Act II, scene iv:

     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,
     Andfar from any man that is a foole.

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seefar,‎from.

• (in no way, not at all):not,not at all,in no way,nowhere near,by no means

• (antonym(s) of“in no way, not at all”):by all means
• (antonym(s) of“not characteristic of”):almost,nigh,near,pene-,quasi-,

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