单词 | far-out |
释义 | far-outadj. a. Remote, distant. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adjective] > remote or inaccessible outc1425 inaccessible?a1475 out-way1532 deviate1575 unaccessible1596 reachless1597 devious1599 wandering1600 untouchable1622 outlying1651 back1683 no-nationa1756 out-of-the-way1756 outlandish1792 eccentric1800 outworld1808 out-by1816 outside1847 off-lying1859 unget-at-able1862 far-out1887 far-back1900 1887 J. Service Life Dr. Duguid 84 A faur oot freen of John Paiks' father. 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. xvii. 232 These far-out back-of-beyond places. 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms III. xv. 215 The far-out squatters that were stocking up new country in Queensland. 1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 100 Yet even waste, grey foreshores, sand, and..far-out clay Are sea-bed still. b. Of jazz: of the latest or most progressive kind. More generally, avant-garde, far-fetched; excellent, splendid. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [adjective] > types of Chicagoan1861 bad1897 hot1918 red-hot1918 soft1921 low-down1922 sweet1924 barrel-house1926 New Orleans1926 straight1926 crazy1927 dirty1927 hotcha1930 jungle1935 solid1935 traditional jazz1935 powerhouse1937 gutty1939 riffy1939 jivey1944 Kansas City1946 cool1948 West Coast1949 far-out1954 nutty1955 swinging1955 mainstream1957 Afro-Latin1958 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adjective] > bizarre remote1533 antic1579 outlandish1588 bizarrea1648 outré1722 freakish1805 weird1820 freaky1824 weirdish1863 ostrobogulous1951 ostrobogulatory1952 far-out1954 weirdo1962 flaky1972 zonky1972 gonzo1974 mondo bizarro1976 mondo1979 woo-woo1986 freakazoid1990 1954 Time 8 Nov. 70 Jazz lingo becomes obsolescent almost as fast as it reaches the public ear... A daring performance was ‘hot’, then ‘cool’, and now is ‘far out’. 1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xviii. 232 There were too many choices in ‘far-out’ harmony. 1959 Listener 1 Oct. 542/3 Cute, gone, far-out little girls. 1960 Melody Maker 31 Dec. 6/3 Oliver Cool is the pseudonym of singer Larry Ellis, who found he won more success when he adopted the ‘far-out’ monniker. 1962 Listener 29 Nov. 911/2 In the spread of serialism, we are faced with another and greater neo-classical craze, the most far-out of all. 1963 K. Amis One Fat Englishman iii. 36 She was..several times more attractive than her with-it off-beat far-out co-religionist deserved. 1970 Sci. Jrnl. May 47/2 Talking with computers, so much a far-out idea when this journal discussed IBM's work on it four years ago, now seems quite straightforward. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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