Antonyms for farfetched

Grammar : Adj

Spell : fahr-fecht

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɑrˈfɛtʃt

Definition of farfetched

Origin : also far fetched, farfetched, 1560s, "brought from afar," from far + past participle of fetch. An earlier form was far fet (1530s). Figurative sense is from c.1600.

adj unbelieveable

Example sentences :

When the points of resemblance are too remote the simile is said to be farfetched.
Extract from : « Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism » by F. V. N. Painter

In fact the latter is so involved and farfetched, that the former is often entirely obscured.
Extract from : « The Galaxy » by Various

The reasons for these conclusions are by no means obscure, or farfetched.
Extract from : « Our Vanishing Wild Life » by William T. Hornaday

They will persist in quoting Mill's farfetched eulogy, without referring to other passages in the essay On Liberty.
Extract from : « Flowers of Freethought » by George W. Foote

These ideas were as absurd as they were farfetched, but still they were the honest ebullitions of a diseased mind.
Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine

But I dismiss, as farfetched and improbable, his supposition that she is Gabrielle Desmaret's daughter.
Extract from : « What Will He Do With It, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

He was a farfetched, dim suggestion of a burlesque upon me, a caricature of me in little.
Extract from : « The Facts Concerning The Recent Carnival Of Crime In Connecticut » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

It explained instantly a something which had always seemed to me only a farfetched Oriental figure of speech.
Extract from : « The Innocents Abroad » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Tom's tone of voice and the farfetched nature of what he was saying had already triggered the security chief's suspicions.
Extract from : « Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung » by Victor Appleton

How could the rude actor learn his quips and pretty phrases, and farfetched conceits?
Extract from : « Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown » by Andrew Lang

Synonyms for farfetched

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