Usually means: Implausible or highly unlikely idea.
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  1. far-fetched: Merriam-Webster
  2. far-fetched: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. far-fetched: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. far-fetched, far-fetched: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Far-fetched, far-fetched: Wordnik
  6. far-fetched: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. far-fetched: Wiktionary
  8. far-fetched: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. far-fetched: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. far-fetched: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. far-fetched: Dictionary.com
  12. far-fetched: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. far-fetched: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. far-fetched: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. far-fetched: ESL Idiom Page
  16. far-fetched: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. far-fetched: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. far-fetched: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. far-fetched: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See farfetchedness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  (obsolete) Brought from far away.
adjective:  Implausible; not likely; difficult to believe.

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