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 Translation for 'far from' from English to French
loin de {prep}far from
3 Words: Others
pas folichon [fam.]far from brilliant [coll.] [lacking intellect]
loin de là {adv} [loc.]far from it [idiom]
pas loin de {prep}not far from
5+ Words: Others
Il n'est pas au bout de ses peines [dans une situation pénible]His troubles are far from over.
Il s'en faut de beaucoup.It is (very) far from it.
Ça s'approche de la vérité.It's not far from the truth.
5+ Words: Verbs
être bien loin de faire qc.to be a far cry from doing sth. [idiom]
revenir de lointo come back from far away
Fiction (Literature and Film)
littérat.F
Le pisseur de copie [1989]
A Far Cry from Kensington [Muriel Spark]
littérat.F
À cent lieues de Kensington [2003]
A Far Cry from Kensington [Muriel Spark]
Partial Matches
loin {adv}far
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vaste {adj} [réforme]far-reaching
fantaisiste {adj} [idée]far-fetched
éloigné {adj}far-off
par trop {adv} [littéraire]far too
bien plusfar more
géogr.
Extrême-Orient {m}
Far East
géogr.
d'Extrême-Orient {adj}
Far Eastern
beaucoup moins {adv}far less
lourd de conséquences {adj}far-reaching
considérable {adj}far-reaching
jusqu'ici {adv}so far
lointain {adj} [avante-poste]far-flung
lointain {adj} [dans l'espace]far-off
étendu {adj} [réseau]far-flung
beaucoup mieux {adv}far better
dans quelle mesure {adv}how far
tiré par les cheveux {adj} {past-p} [fig.]far-fetched
gros de conséquences {adj}far-reaching
dépasser les limites [fig.]to go too far
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Usage Examples English
  • Wheat, the grain used to bake bread back in England, was almost impossible to grow, and imports of wheat were far from cost productive.
  • In an effort to replace the aging Georgia Dome and potentially host a future Super Bowl, team owner Arthur Blank proposed a deal with the city of Atlanta to build a new state-of-the-art stadium not far from where the Georgia Dome is located.
  • However it is far from certain that the Lombard takeover occurred during those years, as very little is known of Faroald and Zotto's respective rises to power in Spoletium (Spoleto) and Beneventum (Benevento).
  • The site known as the Tomb of Abner is located not far from the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and receives visitors throughout the year.
  • ... cameras, scanners) are often very far from the characteristics of the receptors in the human eye.

  • Roger Taylor, the drummer from the band Queen was also raised in the county, and currently lives not far from Falmouth.
  • nearby Ramenskoye, not far from Moscow. The name and type locality were defined by Sergei Nikitin in 1890.
  • and Christian ethical messages, although current scholarly research is still far from clear exactly why and how the work became so vastly popular in the Middle Ages.
  • Not far from the Little Mermaid, the old Citadel ("Kastellet") can be seen.
  • Other than that, Antigua and Barbuda's biggest islands are Guiana Island and Long Island off the coast of Antigua, and Redonda island, which is far from both of the main islands.

  • The principle of operation of the centrifuge also can be simply understood in terms of this expression for the potential energy, which shows that it is favorable energetically when the volume far from the axis of rotation is occupied by the heavier substance.
  • Although the airport is not far from the downtown area, taxi prices do seem to be higher than in other Brazilian cities.
  • As with the rest of the automotive industry, into the 20th century, bus manufacturing increasingly became globalized, with manufacturers producing buses far from their intended market to exploit labour and material cost advantages.
  • In recent years before 2011, the Bothnian Bay and the Bothnian Sea were frozen with solid ice near the Baltic coast and dense floating ice far from it.
  • The star also appears in works of fiction such as "Far From the Madding Crowd" (1874) and "Down and Out in Paris and London" (1933).

  • The prize "for journalism as an act of conscience" has been won over the years by famous journalists such as Anna Politkovskaya and young reporters and editors working far from Russia's media capital, Moscow.
  • If their free-run frequencies were too far from the actual line and field rates, the circuits would not be able to follow the incoming sync signals.
  • According to an academic study, Oran was decimated by the bubonic plague in 1556 and 1678, but all later outbreaks (in 1921: 185 cases; 1931: 76 cases; and 1944: 95 cases) were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.
  • Upon retirement, Borg had three residences: a penthouse in Monte Carlo, not far from his pro shop; a mansion on Long Island, New York and a small island off the Swedish coast.
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