far-fetched

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1. obsoleteBrought from far away.

   it may be, if like industry were used, those far fetched druggs would prosper as well with us, as in those countries, whence now we have them […].

   1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection ii

2. Implausible; not likely; difficult to believe.

   He is full of far-fetched ideas to make money.

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   When the honorable member chose to repeat a long list of grievances which he attempted to father upon the present Government, simply because some of the members of it belonged to the late administration, I think it was about the furthest fetched argument he could have got.

   1876 July 13, Robert Stewart, "Want of Confidence Motion." Parliamentary Debates (Queensland Legislative Assembly)

   The idea that any new MZ could be a star of an international motorcycle show is even farther fetched, rather like a Fiat outshining a Ferrari.

   1993 March 11, Alan Cathcart, “MZ ON THE RISE”, in Cycle World

   Synonyms: outlandish, wild, impractical