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How to pronounce farther in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms further


the application of the law was extended farther.
he is going no farther in his studies.
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Synonyms further


farther from the truth.
farther from our expectations.
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Synonyms further


farther north.
moved farther away.
farther down the corridor.
the practice may go back still farther to the Druids.
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they live in the farther house.

Examples of farther

farther
The men also tried to block some other students who were walking farther behind.
From the orlandosentinel.com
It's hard to imagine feeling farther from the metropolis two hours to the south.
From the post-gazette.com
Bing Crosby, who was a part-owner of the Pirates in 1960, went a little farther.
From the post-gazette.com
The Sun is 400 times wider than the Moon, but it is also 400 times farther away.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The levels are also far below those in many mountainside hot spots farther away.
From the washingtonpost.com
Instead, the problem lies farther up the digestive tract in the small intestine.
From the sacbee.com
They also sat about 25% farther from a black man than they did from a white man.
From the latimes.com
A Finnish environmentalist named Pentti Linkola has gone even farther than that.
From the infowars.com
This study suggests that major depression reduces the success rate even farther.
From the sciencedaily.com
More examples
  • Further: to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (`further' is used more often than `farther' in this abstract sense); "further complicated by uncertainty about the future"; "let's not discuss it further"; "nothing could be further from the truth"; "they are further along in ...
  • More distant in especially space or time; "they live in the farther house"
  • Comparative form of far: more far Of or pertaining to being distant, or of greater distance in degree or of extension in time; comparative form of far: more far
  • Located at a great distance in time or space or degree; "we come from a far country"; "far corners of the earth"; "the far future"; "a far journey"; "the far side of the road"; "far from the truth"; "far in the future"
  • Army for the Liberation of Rwanda: a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again; "in 1999 ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists"
  • To a considerable degree; very much; "a far far better thing that I do"; "felt far worse than yesterday"; "eyes far too close together"
  • At or to or from a great distance in space; "he traveled far"; "strayed far from home"; "sat far away from each other"
  • Being of a considerable distance or length; "a far trek"
  • At or to a certain point or degree; "I can only go so far before I have to give up"; "how far can we get with this kind of argument?"