Synonyms for afar
əˈfɑrafar

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1. afar

   Synonyms:
   abroad, away, aloof

   Antonyms:
   near, at home, close

Princeton's WordNet

1. afaradverb

   (old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far

   "we traveled afar"; "we could see the ship afar off"; "the Magi came from afar"

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1. afaradjective

   Synonyms:
   far off, long way off, afar off, wide away, a great way off, at a distance, to or from a distance

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1. List of paraphrases for "afar":

   talafar, telafer, telafar, talafer

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1. Sean Payton:

   Left behind are obviously apartments, condominiums, homes. Those are all physical things. Nonetheless, they're still home for so many people, we had a team meeting this morning, kind of hit on some topics. And then, you know, I think to some degree that going out and being able to practice today is going to be good for everyone, because from afar, there’s only so much you can do.

2. Willa Sibert Cather:

   The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

3. Bryan Smith:

   Our office hasn't been involved at all with the Utah Republican Party's as they launch and administer online voting, but like everyone else, we are watching the process from afar. As with other state and federal governmental entities, we have looked into the possibilities of online voting as a future generation voting method.

4. Seth MacFarlane:

   The idea that 'Family Guy' is this cartoon Ouija board that predicts things… I was just watching things happen from afar, i think it’s sort of modern media. The idea that it’s more important to be first than to be right. It’s a strange thing to observe. We write our show the same way as everyone else. We make the same kind of topical jokes that ‘The Simpson’ does, [that] ‘South Park’ does. And you work with what you have whether that be swirling rumors or political [material].

5. William Wordsworth:

   Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.