AS FAR AS POSSIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does as far as possible mean? 

• AS FAR AS POSSIBLE (adverb)
  The adverb AS FAR AS POSSIBLE has 1 sense:

1. to a feasible extent

  Familiarity information: AS FAR AS POSSIBLE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AS FAR AS POSSIBLE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a feasible extent

Synonyms:

as far as possible; as much as possible

Context example:

she helped him as much as possible

 Context examples 

With your permission, then, we will push my own personality as far as possible out of the picture.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her youth had passed without distinction, and her middle of life was devoted to the care of a failing mother, and the endeavour to make a small income go as far as possible.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Finding the child more docile and amiable than her sister, the old lady felt it her duty to try and counteract, as far as possible, the bad effects of home freedom and indulgence.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Will it not be wiser to accept the society of those good ladies in Laura Place, and enjoy all the advantages of the connexion as far as possible?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

And after two or three painful adventures with the mothers of part-grown puppies, he came into the knowledge that it was always good policy to let such mothers alone, to keep away from them as far as possible, and to avoid them when he saw them coming.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In choosing a few typical cases which illustrate the remarkable mental qualities of my friend, Sherlock Holmes, I have endeavoured, as far as possible, to select those which presented the minimum of sensationalism, while offering a fair field for his talents.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was certainly carried nearly as far as possible, for they met every morning, and hardly ever spent an evening asunder; but she believed they should not have done so well without the sight of Mr and Mrs Musgrove's respectable forms in the usual places, or without the talking, laughing, and singing of their daughters.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)