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Farfetched

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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; hence, implausible or improbable.
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Adj.1.farfetched - highly imaginative but unlikely; "a farfetched excuse"; "an implausible explanation"
implausible
unlikely - has little chance of being the case or coming about; "an unlikely story"; "an unlikely candidate for reelection"; "a butcher is unlikely to preach vegetarianism"


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It explained instantly a something which had always seemed to me only a farfetched Oriental figure of speech.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
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