Further and farther share meanings relating to distance, whether spatial, temporal, or metaphorical. They're used interchangeably as adjectives meaning "more distant," and also as adverbs meaning "at …
Grammar Farther, farthest or further, furthest? Farther and further are comparative adverbs or adjectives. They are the irregular comparative forms of far. We use them to talk about distance. There …
FURTHER definition: at or to a greater distance; farther. See examples of further used in a sentence.
- More distant in degree, time, or space: a result that was further from our expectations than last time; the further lamppost. 2. Additional: a further example; a further delay.
Definition of further adverb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Verb further (third-person singular simple present furthers, present participle furthering, simple past and past participle furthered) (transitive) To help forward; to assist.
Further means a greater distance than before or than something else. Now we live further away from the city centre. He came to a halt at a crossroads fifty yards further on. Further to the south are some of …
Further often gets confused with farther, but it's better to use further to mean an abstract distance, when two things are moving apart in terms of ideals, agreement, or thoughts, and farther when you're …
He lives further (away) from the office than his boss. We need to look back further into the past to find the cause of these problems. I've never been further west than St. Louis.