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farthest vs furthest

Both 'farthest' and 'furthest' are correct comparative forms of 'far' and can be used interchangeably in most contexts. 'Farthest' is more commonly used in American English, while 'furthest' is more common in British English.

Last updated: March 22, 2024 • 1061 views

farthest

This is a correct comparative form of 'far' and is commonly used in American English.

It is used to indicate the greatest distance or extent in space or time.

Examples:

  • She lives the farthest from the office.
  • He ran the farthest in the race.
  • Since you followed the farthest star.
  • I'm the farthest thing from a junkie.
  • Even in the farthest reaches of the universe, we have seen your Matt Lauer video.
  • I'm going to have him exiled to the farthest corner of the world.
  • This is by far the farthest he's strayed from Tewksbury Hospital, I can tell you that, because he's motivated to meet with you today and show you his own music.
  • This is by far the farthest he's strayed from Tewksbury Hospital, I can tell you that,
  • I'm the farthest thing from the streets there are.
  • I call the room farthest from them.
  • Right now, your lies are the farthest thing from her mind.
  • Atoms bonded into every molecule out to the farthest galaxy.
  • That is the farthest thing in the universe from the truth.
  • The one person I know who's farthest from Division?
  • If two microphone positions are possible, the location farthest laterally from the vehicle longitudinal centreline shall be used.
  • If two microphone positions are possible, the location farthest laterally from the vehicle longitudinal centreline shall be used.
  • And every time I try and be a man, I just end up proving I'm the farthest thing from it.
  • And I got several answers, and I accepted the one which was farthest from home and practically, I thought, halfway to America.
  • It is clear that the draft report guarantees that 40% of Dutch exports of pigs go to their farthest destination: the Spanish market.
  • The end of the pressure vessel farthest from the side-arm is closed with a firing plug which is fitted with two electrodes, one insulated from, and the other earthed to, the plug body.
  • Across all of human history, that moment was the farthest anyone had ever gone.
  • Who can go out the farthest on the gantry.

Alternatives:

  • furthest
  • most distant
  • most remote
  • farther

furthest

This is a correct comparative form of 'far' and is commonly used in British English.

It is used to indicate the greatest distance or extent in space or time.

Examples:

  • She lives the furthest from the office.
  • He ran the furthest in the race.
  • What is the furthest place from Ohio?
  • Back your truck in towards the furthest barn.
  • It was the country furthest away.
  • It was the furthest I could get away from New York and Atlanta.
  • The furthest bit belongs to this flat.
  • In the event of a knockdown, go to the furthest neutral corner.
  • It shall be applied in the opposite direction to and at the corner furthest from the longitudinal loading in point 1.2.
  • Okay, I proposed to you, and then you hopped on a plane and flew to the furthest place you could find for 13 years.
  • Chichester's furthest I ever got.
  • Reunion is the furthest ultra-peripheral region of Europe.
  • This is the furthest you've ventured out all week.
  • And we become the furthest outpost of the Evergreen franchise.
  • NEBULA: The Stone is in the furthest pod.
  • It's literally the furthest diagonal from here.
  • These are the two furthest points in the world.
  • Somehow it's calming to think I'm the furthest person in Tokyo From the sky.
  • Lena should be first because Greece is the furthest away.
  • He lives on a farm, the furthest one in the valley.
  • 23 parsecs beyond our furthest manned exploration.
  • It's about reality at the very furthest reaches of human perception.

Alternatives:

  • farthest
  • most distant
  • most remote
  • farther

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