far-fetched
adjUS /fɑɹˈfɛt͡ʃt/
1
Obsolete Brought from far away.
- it may be, if like industry were used, those far fetched druggs would prosper as well with us, as in those countries, whence now we have them […].1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection ii:
2
Implausible; not likely; difficult to believe.
- He is full of far-fetched ideas to make money.
- When the honorable member chose to repeat a long list of grievances which he attempted to father upon the present Government, simply because some of the members of it belonged to the late administration, I think it was about the furthest fetched argument he could have got.1876 July 13, Robert Stewart, "Want of Confidence Motion." Parliamentary Debates (Queensland Legislative Assembly)
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- The idea that any new MZ could be a star of an international motorcycle show is even farther fetched, rather like a Fiat outshining a Ferrari.1993 March 11, Alan Cathcart, “MZ ON THE RISE”, in Cycle World:
- Derived terms
- far-fetchedly, far-fetchedness