faraway
adjective
far·away
ˈfär-ə-ˌwā 
1
: lying at a great distance : remote
faraway lands
2
: dreamy, abstracted
a faraway look in her eyes
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My grandfather told us tales of faraway lands.
growing up in a seaport instilled in the youth a restless desire to travel to faraway places
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USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Firefly shared a video from Blue Ghost showing a very faint and faraway moon, seen for just a moment before the brilliantly bright Earth eclipses the celestial spec as the lander climbs up its orbit.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 31 Jan. 2025
Nowadays, however, fusion is scaled up to vastly bigger groups, thanks to the ability of the world’s media—including social media—to fill our heads with images of horrendous suffering in faraway regional conflicts.
—Harvey Whitehouse, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2025
Though American audiences sometimes saw Björk as a whimsical pixie from a mysterious faraway land, her catalog has become more and more ambitious and accomplished with each release.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 22 Jan. 2025
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faraway
adjective
far·away
ˌfär-ə-ˌwā
1
: remote entry 1 sense 1, distant
faraway lands
2
: preoccupied sense 1, dreamy
a faraway look
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