farfetched

Other forms of farfetched

comparative

farfetchedder·

superlative

farfetcheddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about farfetched

What does farfetched mean?

farfetched means "(of an idea or story) so exaggerated or ludicrous as to be improbable". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in farfetched?

farfetched has 2 syllables: farfet-ched. The stress falls on "farfet". In IPA it is /ˈfɑɹˈfɛtʃt/.

What is another word for farfetched?

Close synonyms include far-fetched, far-fetched. 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 farfetched a common word?

farfetched is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.