Hypertext Webster Gateway: "farfetched"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Farfetched \Far"fetched`\, a.
1. Brought from far, or from a remote place.
Every remedy contained a multitude of farfetched and
heterogeneous ingredients. --Hawthorne.
2. Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or
introduced; forced; strained.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
farfetched
adj : highly imaginative but unlikely; "a farfetched excuse"; "an
implausible explanation" [syn: {implausible}]
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