Word Meanings - FURTHEST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

superl. Most remote; most in advance; farthest. See Further, a.

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• SUPERLATION
  Exaltation of anything beyond truth or propriety. B. Jonson.
• SUPERLATIVE
  Expressing the highest or lowest degree of the quality, manner, etc., denoted by an adjective or an adverb. The superlative degree is formed from the positive by the use of -est, most, or least; as, highest, most pleasant, least bright.
• ADVANCE
  supposed LL. abantiare; ab + ante before. The spelling 1. To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on. 2. To raise; to elevate. They . . . advanced their eyelids. Shak. 3. To raise to a higher rank; to promote. Ahasueres
• ADVANCED
  1. In the van or front. 2. In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers. 3. Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. Hawthorne.
• FURTHER
  To a greater distance; in addition; moreover. See Farther. Carries us, I know not how much further, into familiar company. M. Arnold. They sdvanced us far as Eleusis and Thria; but no further. Jowett Further off, not so near; apart by a greater
• REMOTE
  Separated by intervals greater than usual. -- Re*mote"ly, adv. -- Re*mote"ness, n. (more info) 1. Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands. Places remote enough are
• FURTHERMORE
  or conj. Moreover; besides; in addition to what has been said.
• SUPERLUNAR; SUPERLUNARY
  Being above the moon; not belonging to this world; -- opposed to sublunary. The head that turns at superlunar things. Pope.
• FURTHERANCE
  The act of furthering or helping forward; promotion; advancement; progress. I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furthersnce and joy of faith. Phil. i. 25. Built of furtherance and pursuing, Not of spent deeds, but of doing.
• SUPERLUCRATION
  Excessive or extraordinary gain. Davenant.
• FURTHERER
  One who furthers. or helps to advance; a promoter. Shak.
• ADVANCER
  1. One who advances; a promoter. 2. A second branch of a buck's antler. Howell.
• FARTHEST
  Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.
• ADVANCEMENT
  Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution. 4. Settlement on a wife, or jointure. Bacon. (more info) 1. The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance;
• FURTHERMOST
  Most remote; furthest.
• FURTHERSOME
  Tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous. You will not find it furthersome. Carlyle.
• POSTREMOTE
  More remote in subsequent time or order.
• PREREMOTE
  More remote in previous time or prior order. In some cases two more links of causation may be introduced; one of them may be termed the preremote cause, the other the postremote effect. E. Darwin.
• TERREMOTE
  An earthquake. Gower.
• DISADVANCE
  To draw back, or cause to draw back. Spenser.
• READVANCE
  To advance again.