Synonyms for few and far between
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : fyoo |
| Phonetic Transcription : fyu |
Top 10 synonyms for few and far between Other synonyms for the word few and far between
- airy
- at a premium
- attenuate
- attenuated
- baseless
- blank
- chimerical
- dead
- deficient
- defunct
- departed
- dispersed
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- empty
- ethereal
- exceptional
- exiguous
- extinct
- extinguished
- failing
- fancied
- few
- few and far between
- flimsy
- gone
- gossamery
- groundless
- hallucinatory
- hypothetical
- illusory
- imaginary
- imagined
- immaterial
- imperceptible
- imponderable
- in short supply
- inconceivable
- inconsequential
- inconsiderable
- insubstantial
- insufficient
- isolated
- lean
- legendary
- less
- light
- limited
- lost
- magnificent
- middling
- minor
- minority
- minute
- missing
- mythical
- negligible
- not many
- not too many
- null
- null and void
- out of the ordinary
- outstanding
- paltry
- passed away
- passed on
- perished
- petty
- piddling
- poor
- preeminent
- rarefied
- recherché
- remarkable
- scant
- scanty
- scarce
- scarcely any
- scattered
- scattering
- scrimpy
- seldom
- seldom met with
- semioccasional
- shadowy
- short
- shortened
- shy
- skimpy
- slender
- slight
- slim
- some
- spare
- sparse
- spasmodic
- sporadic
- stingy
- straggling
- strange
- stray
- subtile
- subtle
- tenuous
- thin
- towering
- trifling
- truncated
- uncommon
- unfrequent
- ungrounded
- unheard of
- unimaginable
- unique
- unlikely
- unreal
- unsubstantial
- unthinkable
- unusual
- unwonted
- vacant
- vague
- vaporous
- void
- wanting
- widely spaced
- without foundation
Définition of few and far between
Origin :- Old English feawe (plural; contracted to fea) "few, seldom, even a little," from Proto-Germanic *faw-, from PIE root *pau- (1) "few, little" (cf. Latin paucus "few, little," paullus "little," parvus "little, small," pauper "poor;" Greek pauros "few, little," pais (genitive paidos) "child;" Latin puer "child, boy," pullus "young animal;" Oscan puklu "child;" Sanskrit potah "a young animal," putrah "son;" Old English fola "young horse;" Old Norse fylja "young female horse;" Old Church Slavonic puta "bird;" Lithuanian putytis "young animal, young bird"). Always plural in Old English.
- Phrase few and far between attested from 1660s. Unusual ironic use in quite a few "many" (1883), earlier a good few (1828). The noun is late 12c., fewe, from the adjective.
- Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. [Winston Churchill, 1940]
- As in infrequent : adj not happening regularly
- As in nonexistent : adj fictional, not real
- As in rare : adj exceptional, infrequent
- As in scarce : adj insufficient, infrequent
- As in sparse : adj very few and scattered
- As in standout : adj rare
- As in few : adj hardly any
Antonyms for few and far between
- abundant
- actual
- adequate
- ample
- big
- cheap
- common
- commonplace
- consequential
- constant
- enough
- existent
- existing
- familiar
- fat
- frequent
- full
- important
- large
- lush
- major
- many
- much
- normal
- often
- ordinary
- plentiful
- real
- regular
- satisfactory
- significant
- standard
- sufficient
- tall
- thick
- true
- typical
- useful
- usual
- well-done
- worthless
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