further

To help forward; to assist.

Adjective

  1. More distant; relatively distant.
    • See those two lampposts? Run to the further one.
    • He was standing at the further end of the corridor.
  2. More, additional.
    • I have one further comment to make.
    • This time Cudicini was left helpless when Natcho stepped up to expertly curl the ball into the top corner. That was the cue for further pressure from the Russian side and it took further Cudicini saves to keep the score...

Origin

From Middle English further, forther, from Old English forþor, furþor (“further”, adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *furþer, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (a common preposition), equivalent to fore + -ther (a vestigial comparative ending still present in such words as other, either, whether, and, in altered form, in after); or as sometimes stated, as forth + -er. Cognate with Scots forder, furder (“further”), Saterland Frisian foarder (“further”), West Frisian fierder (“further”), Dutch verder (“further”), German fürder (“further”).

Forms

farther

Derived

furtherdom further education furtherhood furthermore furthermost furtherness furtherward no further action until further notice with no further ado without further ado

Adverb

  1. To, at or over a greater distance in space, time or other extent.
    • I can run further than you.
    • I live a little further out of town.
    • How was your company doing ten years further back?
  2. To a greater extent or degree.
    • Of the two civilisations, this one was further advanced.
    • I do not propose to discuss it any further. - Please, let me explain just a little further.
  3. Beyond what is already stated or is already the case.
    • Chapter 10 further explains the ideas introduced in Chapter 9.
    • Don't confuse things further.
    • Further, affiant sayeth naught. (A formal statement ending a deposition or affidavit, immediately preceding the affiant's signature.)
  4. Also; in addition; furthermore; moreover.
    • It is overlong, and further, it makes no sense.
    • I claim furthermore that he did not own the company but only worked there.
    • Further, besides sensible things and Forms he says there are the objects of mathematics, which occupy an intermediate position,[…]. - 1924, Aristotle, translated by W. D. Ross, Metaphysics, Book 1, Part 6:
  5. Following on (from).
    • Further to our recent telephone call, I am writing to clarify certain points raised.
    • This example is further to the one on page 17.
    • The Court notes that the applicant’s registration by the StB as their “agent” lies at the heart of the application. Although the Court has no jurisdiction ratione temporis to examine the registration as such, it...

Forms

farther

Related

far

Derived

furthermore seek-no-further

Verb

  1. To help forward; to assist.
    • In happie houre we haue ſet the Crowne Upon your Kingly head, that ſeeks our honor, In ioyning with the man, ordain’d by heauen To further euerie action to the beſt. - c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe],...
    • Upon this he brought me a cotton bag and giving it to me, said, "Take this bag and fill it with pebbles from the beach and go forth with a company of the townsfolk to whom I will give a charge respecting thee. Do as...

    Antonyms: hinder

  2. To encourage growth; to support progress or growth of something; to promote.
    • Further the economy.
    • to further the peace process

Forms

furthers furthering furthered farther

Derived

furtherance furtherer furtherly furtherment furthersome