Meanings
- not comparableby far; far and away
It is scarcely so touching as Daisy Miller, which is out and away the best thing of its kind in recent English; but it is a piece of work so capable and original, so vigorous, and to a certain point so telling, as to be worthy of equal praise and study.
1878, W. E. Henley, review of The Europeans by Henry James; in Academy (xiv, 354)
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbby a considerable margin
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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