Meanings
- formalnot comparableTo some other place; in some other direction.
Near-synonyms: elsewhere (sometimes synonymous); whithersoever
2 more examples
[…] know that ‘impossible,’ where Truth and Mercy and the everlasting Voice of Nature order, has no place in the brave man’s dictionary. That when all men have said “Impossible,” and tumbled noisily elsewhither, and thou alone art left, then first thy time and possibility have come.
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Chapter VIII, The Didactic”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope), page 295With Strickland the sexual appetite took a very small place. It was unimportant. It was irksome. His soul aimed elsewhither.
1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLIII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, page 225Synonyms: otherwhither, more at somewhere else, elsewhere, whithersoever
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbTo some other place; in some other direction.
Origin
From else + whither (“to which place, to what place”).
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