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far fetched
adjective as in improbable
adjective as in incredible
adjective as in unbelievable
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adjective as in unreasonable
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adjective as in fantastical
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adjective as in unapt
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- ambiguous
- borderline
- chancy
- clouded
- contingent
- debatable
- dicey
- disreputable
- doubtable
- dubious
- dubitable
- equivocal
- far-fetched
- fat chance
- fishy
- hazardous
- hazy
- iffy
- improbable
- impugnable
- inconclusive
- indecisive
- indefinite
- indeterminate
- indistinct
- insecure
- long shot
- obscure
- on thin ice
- open
- pending
- precarious
- problematic
- questionable
- shady
- sneaky
- speculative
- suspect
- suspicious
- touch-and-go
- touchy
- uncertain
- unconfirmed
- undecided
- uneasy
- unlikely
- unsettled
- unstable
- unsure
- up for grabs
adjective as in doubtful
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adjective as in dubious
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adjective as in fantastic
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adjective as in far-fetched
adjective as in fishy
adjective as in gonzo
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Example Sentences
Fortunes reversed and what was far-fetched yesterday was suddenly closer to fact.
When he first pitched it to me for The Dark Knight, I liked the thematic idea, but I found it possibly a little far-fetched.
But, in the case of the border kids, it turns out that those worries about diseases were not so far-fetched after all.
Nobody really expected leniency, but still there was hope because the charges against the journalists were so far-fetched.
Not everything on OITNB needs to be shades of gray, and to say the whole thing seemed far-fetched is an understatement.
And this sort of trouble (which I cannot avoid) unfortunately produces nothing when done but alembication and the far-fetched.
Only it seemed to me that these things tended in time to make the figures of speech on the signs sort of far-fetched.
He never uses a superfluous or a far-fetched word, never indulges in flowers, word-painting, or rhetorical trickery of any kind.
Does that seem a little far-fetched, a little as though we were trying to prove too much, with such vague words?
Thus far-fetched were the motives which the prince adduced to avoid touching upon the single one which really decided him.
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On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to far-fetched, such as: bizarre, doubtful, dubious, eccentric, fantastic, and fishy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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