grammar · neutral

far from + adjective/noun/gerund

Band 4-5speakingtask2

Used to emphasize that something is not at all like the description or is the opposite (far from + adj/noun/gerund).

Examples

“The new policy is far from effective.”

“Far from solving the problem, the measure made it worse.”

“She is far from being satisfied with the results.”

Band 8 sentence

“The brief pilot scheme proved far from adequate for addressing the city's chronic housing shortage.”

Collocations

  • far from ideal
  • far from being

Word family

far advfarther/further adv/adj

Common mistakes

far to good→far from good

much far from→far from

Say it for a higher band

5far to good→6much far from→7+far from + adjective/noun/gerund

Synonyms

by no means

Easily confused

far from vs by no means

“Far from being a success, the project was a complete failure.”

Related words

the extent to which + clauseas + adjective + asA + adjective + -er + than Bby contrast, + clausemore + adjective + thanthe ratio of + A + to + Bnot as/so + adjective + asthe + superlative + (noun)

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