Synonyms for far-fetched
adj hard to believeAntonyms for far-fetched
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dubious
adjective. doubtful
- arguable
- chancy
- debatable
- diffident
- disputable
- dubitable
- equivocal
- far-fetched
- fishy
- fly-by-night
- hesitant
- iffy
- improbable
- indecisive
- moot
- mootable
- open
- perplexed
- problematic
- questionable
- reluctant
- shady
- skeptical
- suspect
- suspicious
- touch and go
- trustless
- unassured
- uncertain
- unclear
- unconvinced
- undecided
- undependable
- unlikely
- unreliable
- unsure
- untrustworthy
- untrusty
- wavering
fantastic
adjective. strange, different; imaginary
- absurd
- artificial
- capricious
- chimerical
- comical
- crazy
- eccentric
- erratic
- exotic
- extravagant
- extreme
- fanciful
- far-fetched
- fictional
- foolish
- foreign
- freakish
- grotesque
- hallucinatory
- illusive
- imaginative
- implausible
- incredible
- insane
- irrational
- ludicrous
- mad
- misleading
- nonsensical
- odd
- out of sight
- outlandish
- peculiar
- phantasmagorical
- preposterous
- quaint
- queer
- ridiculous
- singular
- suppositious
- unbelievable
- unlikely
- unreal
- wacky
- weird
- whimsical
fantastical
adjective. marvelous
fishy
adjective. doubtful, suspicious
foreign
adjective. from another country, experience
- adopted
- alien
- alienated
- antipodal
- barbarian
- barbaric
- borrowed
- derived
- different
- distant
- estranged
- exiled
- exotic
- expatriate
- external
- extralocal
- extraneous
- extrinsic
- far
- far-fetched
- far-off
- faraway
- from abroad
- immigrant
- imported
- inaccessible
- nonnative
- nonresident
- not domestic
- not native
- offshore
- outlandish
- outside
- overseas
- remote
- strange
- transoceanic
- unaccustomed
- unexplored
- unfamiliar
- unknown
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Word Origin & History
Example Sentences forfar-fetched
To ascribe them specially to God would seem to us far-fetched.
It is a far-fetched idea; but still it is her idea and I must submit.
"Maybe my idea of asking for help wasn't so far-fetched," she said quietly.
“A far-fetched enough parallel,” I observed coldly to Marlow.
You may be right, of course, but it sounds kind of far-fetched to me.
They have no reasons to give—or their reasons are far-fetched.
Perhaps some will consider this interpretation too far-fetched to pass.
The issue seemed to him too far-fetched to warrant discussion.
Its moral is conventional, while the incident is too far-fetched for sympathy.
If all this sounds too far-fetched to bring about, that is because it is.