far gone
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see far, go, gone.
adj
At an advanced stage of decline, disability or alteration, from some process, such as disease, decay, intoxication, infatuation, or moral weakness.
Example Sentences
- "You're pretty far gone, pretty far gone You're clear out here in Ore-y-gone."
- "[…] the night is far gone, the day is near. Let us then lay aside the works of darkness and put on the armor of light."
- "That there is not any greater Remedy for the Gout than drinking Water, not only by young, bult old Men; many of whom, he faith, have drank cold Water for many Weeks, which hath succeeded so well, though though they were far gone in Years , that they found great Ease thereby, without that Offence to the Stomach, or Hindrance of Digestion, which some did not seem to fear."
- "“The first rapid survey of the enemy's position inclined me to attack his left, but the day was far gone,” McClellan wrote later."
- "This mischief is remedied if the wine be not too far gone, and possess strength and body, by racking it into a cask just emptied of sound wine, and sulphured."
- "There is pardon for such a one — there is full pardon to those who are brought to repentance; but few of such men ever receive it; for when they are so far gone as to sin presumptuously, because they wish do it — to sin merely for the sake of showing their disregard for God and for God's law, we say of such, there is pardon for them, but it is wondrous grace which brings them into such a condition that they are willing to accept it."
Inflected Forms
further gone (comparative)
farther gone (comparative)
furthest gone (superlative)
farthest gone (superlative)