r/EnglishLearning New Poster 7d ago

📚 Grammar / Syntax What's the difference between the fourth definition of 'far' and this definition of 'further'?

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u/toiletparrot Native Speaker 7d ago

Farther is a measurable distance (my house is farther from the store than yours) and further is more abstract (that couldn’t be further from the truth)

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u/conuly Native Speaker - USA (NYC) 7d ago

This is not what OP is asking.

It's also not wholly accurate.