far goneadj.

Brit.

/ˌfɑː ˈɡɒn/, U.S.

/ˌfɑr ˈɡɑn/

Forms: see far adv. and gone adj. and n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: far adv., gone adj.

Etymology: < far adv. + gone adj.

a. Beyond hope of recovery, help, etc.; in a very advanced stage of some (bad or worsening) state or condition.

(a) In predicative use. Also with in, with.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > dangerously ill

far gone1533

poorly1570

cankerous1609

dangerous1620

cankery1674

à la mort1700

(to be) on the danger list1938

1533 T. Paynell tr. U. von Hutten De Morbo Gallico xix. f. 47^v We be so farre gone, that we excede all other nations, be they neuer so euyll, in suche abundaunce and voluptuous pleasures.

?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors ii. sig. A8 This matter is so farre gone, that there is no remedy.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 185 Yorke is too far gone with griefe.

1614 J. Norden Load-starre to Spirituall Life xxxvi. 275 He is doubtlesse farre gone in a deadly Lethargie.

1656 R. Baxter Reformed Pastor iv. §2, in Wks. (1707) IV. 369 Some Men are so far gone in Pride, that [etc.].

1720 D. Manley Power of Love ii. 152 Caton was far gone in Impudence.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 49 I will follow you to the world's end, if you don't think me too far gone to be out of confinement.

1793 T. Beddoes Let. to E. Darwin 31 Far gone in a Consumption of the lungs.

1804 ‘E. de Acton’ Tale without Title II. 187 She is far gone in the fashionable heroism of the English day.

1849 C. M. Yonge in Mag. for Young June 188 Poor Ned, he must have been far gone, indeed, to let his children go without Baptism!

1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 681/2 Agenor was now too far gone in guilt to recede.

1872 Earl of Pembroke & G. H. Kingsley South Sea Bubbles i. 21 Two horses too far gone to be able to gallop.

1928 E. A. Walker Hist. of S. Afr. 135 Their tribal system was now far gone in decay.

1947 J. Harvey Gothic Eng. ii. 62 The latter [painting] is now too far gone for detailed stylistic analysis.

1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 136/2 I'd like to work with children, teen-agers, not older people who are really far gone, terribly withdrawn, or psychotic.

2003 D. Barton et al. Dangerous Markets 180 The bank was simply too far gone by then.

(b) In attributive use.

ΚΠ

1567 T. Harding Reioindre to M. Iewels Replie against Masse xi. 182 A stubborne and a farre gone heretique.

1654 C. Wase tr. Gratius Cynegeticon sig. B12^v Bath him herein, and his torne body scoure, Clensing the far-gone plague.

1774 F. Gentleman Bell's Ed. Shakespeare's Plays (new ed.) VI. 160 Troilus here finely describes himself, in a far-gone state of amorous imbecility.

1787 N. Godbold Treat. Nature & Cure Consumptions (ed. 3) p. v John Alexander..was cured of a far-gone Consumption.

1831 T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle xvi. 258 Which the far-gone innamorato found irresistible.

1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd xxi. 65 Owing to the great hurry necessitated by the far-gone state of some of the flock, Gabriel missed his aim in one case.

1913 Med. Missionary Oct. 297/1 I feared to meet the pale and far-gone people who came with the anxious inquiry.., ‘Doctor, can you do anything for me?’.. I knew I could not cure everybody.

1960 Life 28 Mar. 101 The sports car devotees..are a far-gone crowd.

2004 M. N. Nagler Search for Nonviolent Future viii. 250 A far-gone situation like those that seemed to appear out of nowhere in Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda, or Indonesia.

b. spec. Very intoxicated by drink or (later) drugs. Also with in, on.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with

woodc725

woodsekc890

giddyc1000

out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000

witlessc1000

brainsickOE

amadc1225

lunaticc1290

madc1330

sickc1340

brain-wooda1375

out of one's minda1387

frenetica1398

fonda1400

formada1400

unwisea1400

brainc1400

unwholec1400

alienate?a1425

brainless1434

distract of one's wits1470

madfula1475

furious1475

distract1481

fro oneself1483

beside oneself1490

beside one's patience1490

dementa1500

red-wood?1507

extraught1509

misminded1509

peevish1523

bedlam-ripe1525

straughta1529

fanatic1533

bedlama1535

daft1540

unsounda1547

stark raving (also staring) mad1548

distraughted1572

insane1575

acrazeda1577

past oneself1576

frenzy1577

poll-mad1577

out of one's senses1580

maddeda1586

frenetical1588

distempered1593

distraught1597

crazed1599

diswitted1599

idle-headed1599

lymphatical1603

extract1608

madling1608

distracteda1616

informala1616

far gone1616

crazy1617

March mada1625

non compos mentis1628

brain-crazed1632

demented1632

crack-brained1634

arreptitiousa1641

dementate1640

dementated1650

brain-crackeda1652

insaniated1652

exsensed1654

bedlam-witteda1657

lymphatic1656

mad-like1679

dementative1685

non compos1699

beside one's gravity1716

hyte1720

lymphated1727

out of one's head1733

maddened1735

swivel-eyed1758

wrong1765

brainsickly1770

fatuous1773

derangedc1790

alienated1793

shake-brained1793

crack-headed1796

flighty1802

wowf1802

doitrified1808

phrenesiac1814

bedlamite1815

mad-braineda1822

fey1823

bedlamitish1824

skire1825

beside one's wits1827

as mad as a hatter1829

crazied1842

off one's head1842

bemadded1850

loco1852

off one's nut1858

off his chump1864

unsane1867

meshuga1868

non-sane1868

loony1872

bee-headed1879

off one's onion1881

off one's base1882

(to go) off one's dot1883

locoed1885

screwy1887

off one's rocker1890

balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891

meshuggener1892

nutty1892

buggy1893

bughouse1894

off one's pannikin1894

ratty1895

off one's trolley1896

batchy1898

twisted1900

batsc1901

batty1903

dippy1903

bugs1904

dingy1904

up the (also a) pole1904

nut1906

nuts1908

nutty as a fruitcake1911

bugged1920

potty1920

cuckoo1923

nutsy1923

puggled1923

blah1924

détraqué1925

doolally1925

off one's rocket1925

puggle1925

mental1927

phooey1927

crackers1928

squirrelly1928

over the edge1929

round the bend1929

lakes1934

ding-a-ling1935

wacky1935

screwball1936

dingbats1937

Asiatic1938

parlatic1941

troppo1941

up the creek1941

screwed-up1943

bonkers1945

psychological1952

out to lunch1955

starkers1956

off (one's) squiff1960

round the twist1960

yampy1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

out of one's skull1967

whacked out1969

batshit1971

woo-woo1971

nutso1973

out of (one's) gourd1977

wacko1977

off one's meds1986

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk

drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350

to-drunka1382

as drunk as the devilc1400

sow-drunk1509

fish-drunk1591

swine-drunk1592

gone1603

far gone1616

reeling drunk1620

soda1625

souseda1625

blind1630

full1631

drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652

as full (or tight) as a tick1678

clear1688

drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700

as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727

as drunk as a piper1728

blind-drunkc1775

bitch foua1796

blootered1820

whole-seas over1820

three sheets in the wind1821

as drunk as a loon1830

shellaced1881

as drunk as a boiled owl1886

stinking1887

steaming drunk1892

steaming with drink1897

footless1901

legless1903

plastered1912

legless drunk1926

stinko1927

drunk as a pissant1930

kaylied1937

langers1949

stoned1952

smashed1962

shit-faced1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

trashed1966

faced1968

stoned1968

steaming1973

langered1979

annihilated1980

obliterated1984

wankered1992

muntered1998

1616 T. Roe Jrnl. 25 Oct. in Embassy to Great Mogul (1899) II. 303 The king returned at Euening, hauing beene ouer night farr gone in wyne.

1669 S. Malbon Death & Life iii. 64 As oft when men are drunk, or far gone in drink.

1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild iv. vii. in Misc. III. 338 At length, perceiving him very far gone, I..ran out of the Cabin.

1784 J. O'Keeffe Young Quaker iii. 34 Sir, you had best leave the room—you are very far gone.

1815 H. C. Robinson Diary 26 Feb. (1967) 39 Charles Lamb..[took] too much wine. He was not so far gone as to be outrageous..but he was flurried in his manner.

1887 J. Ball Notes Naturalist in S. Amer. 253 Two ladies..both far gone in intoxication.

1927 H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. T. Mann Magic Mountain (London ed.) I. v. 304 He was quite generally known to be very far gone, drunk as a lord and not caring who knew it.

1995 D. D'Ammassa Twisted Images 18 He had consumed a proportionate amount of wine as well, and..was at least as far gone as I.

2. Chiefly in predicative use. Of the day, night, etc.: greatly advanced in its course; that has grown late.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adjective] > late or well-advanced

highOE

late1583

onwarda1586

deep1601

far gone1607

advanced1653

tardive1905

1607 Dobsons Drie Bobbes sig. C3 The day was farre gone before they were set at libertie.

1667 R. L'Estrange tr. F. de Quevedo Visions iv. 135 My Man drew the Curtain of my Bed, and told me, the Morning was far gone.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. xiii. 76 I may be benighted: The day is far gone.

?1778 Conquerors 39 As drunken men who brave the dang'rous fight O'er sparkling glasses in the far-gone night.

1843 J. Hood Austral. & East vii. 233 The afternoon was far gone before they resumed their weary journey.

1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. 2 Far gone as the day was.

1912 Motor World 5 Sept. 15/2 I got the order before the day was far gone.

1961 N. Roy Black Albino 93 The empty waterhole was filled to overflowing before the evening was far gone.

2003 M. D. O'Brien Cry of Stone xv. 397 Though the afternoon was far gone, the sun blazed on the copper dome.

3. Chiefly attributive. Esp. of time or a period of time: that has long since past; in the distant past.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > [adjective] > long-past or old

oldOE

ancient1366

yorec1400

antique1532

of yore1598

long-ago1603

far gone1829

way back1885

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > that is such in a high degree

greatc1300

no smalla1450

spacious1600

immense1631

far gone1829

strong1897

1829 C. MacFarlane Constantinople in 1828 xii. 149 The mutilated monuments of art referred..to the far gone days, when these regions shone foremost in civilization.

1847 H. H. Freiburg Zaddok 46 I..look in spirit to the time far gone.

1911 Smart Set Aug. 15/1 The nearest thing to a real adventure that she had engaged in since her far gone girlhood.

1922 W. de la Mare Return xix. 229 A far-gone memory returned in dream.

2013 C. Vaughn Dreams Golden Age vi. 64 Something bad had happened to her mother in the far-gone past.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	far gone
释义	far goneadj. Brit. /ˌfɑː ˈɡɒn/, U.S. /ˌfɑr ˈɡɑn/ Forms: see far adv. and gone adj. and n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: far adv., gone adj. Etymology: < far adv. + gone adj. 1. a. Beyond hope of recovery, help, etc.; in a very advanced stage of some (bad or worsening) state or condition. (a) In predicative use. Also with in, with. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > dangerously ill far gone1533 poorly1570 cankerous1609 dangerous1620 cankery1674 à la mort1700 (to be) on the danger list1938 1533 T. Paynell tr. U. von Hutten De Morbo Gallico xix. f. 47^v We be so farre gone, that we excede all other nations, be they neuer so euyll, in suche abundaunce and voluptuous pleasures. ?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors ii. sig. A8 This matter is so farre gone, that there is no remedy. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 185 Yorke is too far gone with griefe. View more context for this quotation 1614 J. Norden Load-starre to Spirituall Life xxxvi. 275 He is doubtlesse farre gone in a deadly Lethargie. 1656 R. Baxter Reformed Pastor iv. §2, in Wks. (1707) IV. 369 Some Men are so far gone in Pride, that [etc.]. 1720 D. Manley Power of Love ii. 152 Caton was far gone in Impudence. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 49 I will follow you to the world's end, if you don't think me too far gone to be out of confinement. 1793 T. Beddoes Let. to E. Darwin 31 Far gone in a Consumption of the lungs. 1804 ‘E. de Acton’ Tale without Title II. 187 She is far gone in the fashionable heroism of the English day. 1849 C. M. Yonge in Mag. for Young June 188 Poor Ned, he must have been far gone, indeed, to let his children go without Baptism! 1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 681/2 Agenor was now too far gone in guilt to recede. 1872 Earl of Pembroke & G. H. Kingsley South Sea Bubbles i. 21 Two horses too far gone to be able to gallop. 1928 E. A. Walker Hist. of S. Afr. 135 Their tribal system was now far gone in decay. 1947 J. Harvey Gothic Eng. ii. 62 The latter [painting] is now too far gone for detailed stylistic analysis. 1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 136/2 I'd like to work with children, teen-agers, not older people who are really far gone, terribly withdrawn, or psychotic. 2003 D. Barton et al. Dangerous Markets 180 The bank was simply too far gone by then. (b) In attributive use. ΚΠ 1567 T. Harding Reioindre to M. Iewels Replie against Masse xi. 182 A stubborne and a farre gone heretique. 1654 C. Wase tr. Gratius Cynegeticon sig. B12^v Bath him herein, and his torne body scoure, Clensing the far-gone plague. 1774 F. Gentleman Bell's Ed. Shakespeare's Plays (new ed.) VI. 160 Troilus here finely describes himself, in a far-gone state of amorous imbecility. 1787 N. Godbold Treat. Nature & Cure Consumptions (ed. 3) p. v John Alexander..was cured of a far-gone Consumption. 1831 T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle xvi. 258 Which the far-gone innamorato found irresistible. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd xxi. 65 Owing to the great hurry necessitated by the far-gone state of some of the flock, Gabriel missed his aim in one case. 1913 Med. Missionary Oct. 297/1 I feared to meet the pale and far-gone people who came with the anxious inquiry.., ‘Doctor, can you do anything for me?’.. I knew I could not cure everybody. 1960 Life 28 Mar. 101 The sports car devotees..are a far-gone crowd. 2004 M. N. Nagler Search for Nonviolent Future viii. 250 A far-gone situation like those that seemed to appear out of nowhere in Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda, or Indonesia. b. spec. Very intoxicated by drink or (later) drugs. Also with in, on. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with woodc725 woodsekc890 giddyc1000 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000 witlessc1000 brainsickOE amadc1225 lunaticc1290 madc1330 sickc1340 brain-wooda1375 out of one's minda1387 frenetica1398 fonda1400 formada1400 unwisea1400 brainc1400 unwholec1400 alienate?a1425 brainless1434 distract of one's wits1470 madfula1475 furious1475 distract1481 fro oneself1483 beside oneself1490 beside one's patience1490 dementa1500 red-wood?1507 extraught1509 misminded1509 peevish1523 bedlam-ripe1525 straughta1529 fanatic1533 bedlama1535 daft1540 unsounda1547 stark raving (also staring) mad1548 distraughted1572 insane1575 acrazeda1577 past oneself1576 frenzy1577 poll-mad1577 out of one's senses1580 maddeda1586 frenetical1588 distempered1593 distraught1597 crazed1599 diswitted1599 idle-headed1599 lymphatical1603 extract1608 madling1608 distracteda1616 informala1616 far gone1616 crazy1617 March mada1625 non compos mentis1628 brain-crazed1632 demented1632 crack-brained1634 arreptitiousa1641 dementate1640 dementated1650 brain-crackeda1652 insaniated1652 exsensed1654 bedlam-witteda1657 lymphatic1656 mad-like1679 dementative1685 non compos1699 beside one's gravity1716 hyte1720 lymphated1727 out of one's head1733 maddened1735 swivel-eyed1758 wrong1765 brainsickly1770 fatuous1773 derangedc1790 alienated1793 shake-brained1793 crack-headed1796 flighty1802 wowf1802 doitrified1808 phrenesiac1814 bedlamite1815 mad-braineda1822 fey1823 bedlamitish1824 skire1825 beside one's wits1827 as mad as a hatter1829 crazied1842 off one's head1842 bemadded1850 loco1852 off one's nut1858 off his chump1864 unsane1867 meshuga1868 non-sane1868 loony1872 bee-headed1879 off one's onion1881 off one's base1882 (to go) off one's dot1883 locoed1885 screwy1887 off one's rocker1890 balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891 meshuggener1892 nutty1892 buggy1893 bughouse1894 off one's pannikin1894 ratty1895 off one's trolley1896 batchy1898 twisted1900 batsc1901 batty1903 dippy1903 bugs1904 dingy1904 up the (also a) pole1904 nut1906 nuts1908 nutty as a fruitcake1911 bugged1920 potty1920 cuckoo1923 nutsy1923 puggled1923 blah1924 détraqué1925 doolally1925 off one's rocket1925 puggle1925 mental1927 phooey1927 crackers1928 squirrelly1928 over the edge1929 round the bend1929 lakes1934 ding-a-ling1935 wacky1935 screwball1936 dingbats1937 Asiatic1938 parlatic1941 troppo1941 up the creek1941 screwed-up1943 bonkers1945 psychological1952 out to lunch1955 starkers1956 off (one's) squiff1960 round the twist1960 yampy1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 out of one's skull1967 whacked out1969 batshit1971 woo-woo1971 nutso1973 out of (one's) gourd1977 wacko1977 off one's meds1986 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350 to-drunka1382 as drunk as the devilc1400 sow-drunk1509 fish-drunk1591 swine-drunk1592 gone1603 far gone1616 reeling drunk1620 soda1625 souseda1625 blind1630 full1631 drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652 as full (or tight) as a tick1678 clear1688 drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700 as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727 as drunk as a piper1728 blind-drunkc1775 bitch foua1796 blootered1820 whole-seas over1820 three sheets in the wind1821 as drunk as a loon1830 shellaced1881 as drunk as a boiled owl1886 stinking1887 steaming drunk1892 steaming with drink1897 footless1901 legless1903 plastered1912 legless drunk1926 stinko1927 drunk as a pissant1930 kaylied1937 langers1949 stoned1952 smashed1962 shit-faced1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 trashed1966 faced1968 stoned1968 steaming1973 langered1979 annihilated1980 obliterated1984 wankered1992 muntered1998 1616 T. Roe Jrnl. 25 Oct. in Embassy to Great Mogul (1899) II. 303 The king returned at Euening, hauing beene ouer night farr gone in wyne. 1669 S. Malbon Death & Life iii. 64 As oft when men are drunk, or far gone in drink. 1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild iv. vii. in Misc. III. 338 At length, perceiving him very far gone, I..ran out of the Cabin. 1784 J. O'Keeffe Young Quaker iii. 34 Sir, you had best leave the room—you are very far gone. 1815 H. C. Robinson Diary 26 Feb. (1967) 39 Charles Lamb..[took] too much wine. He was not so far gone as to be outrageous..but he was flurried in his manner. 1887 J. Ball Notes Naturalist in S. Amer. 253 Two ladies..both far gone in intoxication. 1927 H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. T. Mann Magic Mountain (London ed.) I. v. 304 He was quite generally known to be very far gone, drunk as a lord and not caring who knew it. 1995 D. D'Ammassa Twisted Images 18 He had consumed a proportionate amount of wine as well, and..was at least as far gone as I. 2. Chiefly in predicative use. Of the day, night, etc.: greatly advanced in its course; that has grown late. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adjective] > late or well-advanced highOE late1583 onwarda1586 deep1601 far gone1607 advanced1653 tardive1905 1607 Dobsons Drie Bobbes sig. C3 The day was farre gone before they were set at libertie. 1667 R. L'Estrange tr. F. de Quevedo Visions iv. 135 My Man drew the Curtain of my Bed, and told me, the Morning was far gone. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. xiii. 76 I may be benighted: The day is far gone. ?1778 Conquerors 39 As drunken men who brave the dang'rous fight O'er sparkling glasses in the far-gone night. 1843 J. Hood Austral. & East vii. 233 The afternoon was far gone before they resumed their weary journey. 1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. 2 Far gone as the day was. 1912 Motor World 5 Sept. 15/2 I got the order before the day was far gone. 1961 N. Roy Black Albino 93 The empty waterhole was filled to overflowing before the evening was far gone. 2003 M. D. O'Brien Cry of Stone xv. 397 Though the afternoon was far gone, the sun blazed on the copper dome. 3. Chiefly attributive. Esp. of time or a period of time: that has long since past; in the distant past. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [adjective] > long-past or old oldOE ancient1366 yorec1400 antique1532 of yore1598 long-ago1603 far gone1829 way back1885 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > that is such in a high degree greatc1300 no smalla1450 spacious1600 immense1631 far gone1829 strong1897 1829 C. MacFarlane Constantinople in 1828 xii. 149 The mutilated monuments of art referred..to the far gone days, when these regions shone foremost in civilization. 1847 H. H. Freiburg Zaddok 46 I..look in spirit to the time far gone. 1911 Smart Set Aug. 15/1 The nearest thing to a real adventure that she had engaged in since her far gone girlhood. 1922 W. de la Mare Return xix. 229 A far-gone memory returned in dream. 2013 C. Vaughn Dreams Golden Age vi. 64 Something bad had happened to her mother in the far-gone past. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1533
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