farfetchedly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Example Sentences
- "Although I have often opposed William Safire's political views, I have generally regarded him as a clever word watcher. In the ‘Third Annual Vogue Word Watch” he is reasonably, if sometimes farfetchedly, accurate as far as current cliches go."
- "But no one need fear that Mr. Barry will examine his women too severely or will risk troubling his audience. Though he ultimately - and farfetchedly - catches seven of the sisters in the same callous betrayal of the eighth, the characters immediately and miraculously see the evil of their ways and all vow to behave better in the future."
- "It's not enough that Trevor is a sad, spunky kid with an ache for a happy family life; he must also be turned into an angelic martyr whose fate seems rather farfetchedly aligned with Christian theology (as if this film needed any more bloat)."
Etymology
From farfetched + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more farfetchedly (comparative)
most farfetchedly (superlative)