FURTHEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does furthest mean? 

• FURTHEST (adjective)
  The adjective FURTHEST has 1 sense:

1. (comparatives of 'far') most remote in space or time or order

  Familiarity information: FURTHEST used as an adjective is very rare.

• FURTHEST (adverb)
  The adverb FURTHEST has 2 senses:

1. to the greatest degree or extent or most advanced stage ('furthest' is used more often than 'farthest' in this abstract sense)

2. to the greatest distance in space or time ('farthest' is used more often than 'furthest' in this physical sense)

  Familiarity information: FURTHEST used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FURTHEST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(comparatives of 'far') most remote in space or time or order

Synonyms:

farthermost; farthest; furthermost; furthest; utmost; uttermost

Context example:

the utmost tip of the peninsula

Similar:

far (located at a great distance in time or space or degree)

Domain usage:

comparative; comparative degree (the comparative form of an adjective or adverb)

• FURTHEST (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To the greatest degree or extent or most advanced stage ('furthest' is used more often than 'farthest' in this abstract sense)

Synonyms:

farthest; furthest

Context example:

she goes farthest in helping us

Sense 2

Meaning:

To the greatest distance in space or time ('farthest' is used more often than 'furthest' in this physical sense)

Synonyms:

farthest; furthest

Context example:

he swam the furthest

 Context examples 

The bottom portion or the portion that is furthest from the opening of a hollow organ.

(Fundus, NCI Thesaurus)

The youth had now journeyed considerably beyond the furthest domains of the Abbey.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The point in the earth's orbit furthest away from the sun.

(Aphelion, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

The largest portion of the gallbladder which is furthest from the cystic duct.

(Gallbladder Fundus, NCI Thesaurus)

Pluto, as the planet furthest out in our solar system, spends the longest time in each of the signs he visits.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I think, Colonel, that you and Watson might return now, and I will be with you again in an hour at the furthest.

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

The omega carbon in a fatty acid is the carbon furthest in the alkyl chain from the carboxylic acid.

(Omega-Oxidation of Fatty Acids Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

One third of the tube-like structure carrying bile that is closest to the intestine and furthest from the hepatic and cystic ducts.

(Distal 1/3 of the Common Bile Duct, NCI Thesaurus)

Seeing from his violent demeanour that he was English, they gave him a ticket for the furthest station on the way thither that the train reached.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A clustering method in which the distance between two clusters is determined by the greatest distance between any two objects in the different clusters (furthest neighbors).

(Complete Linkage Cluster Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)