far and away

1. 1.

   by a considerable margin

   “she was by far the smartest student”

   “it was far and away the best meal he had ever eaten”

   Synonymsby farout and away

Questions about far and away

What does far and away mean?

far and away means "by a considerable margin".

What is another word for far and away?

Close synonyms include by far, out and away. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is far and away a common word?

far and away is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.