far from

English

Adverb

far from (not comparable)

Not; not at all.
Don't leave now: our task is far from complete!

My stay at the hotel was far from satisfactory.
- 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
  The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see far,‎ from.

Translations

not at all

Danish: langtfra

Swedish: långtifrån (sv)

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