とおい
Meanings
Adjective (い)
1. far; distant; far away; a long way off; in the distance
It is a place that is by no means far.
2. distant (past); remote (in time); remote; far-removed (in time)
That, too, is not a distant memory.
3. distant (relationship or kinship); having little to do (with someone)
4. far (from something else in quality, degree, etc.); not similar; way off
It's far from ideal, but it's probably still better than last time.
5. hard (of hearing)
as 耳が遠い
6. nearsighted
as 目が遠い
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (10 in total)
far away; far off; nowhere near; far cry
remote past; far ago; time immemorial
hard of hearing
Examples (86 in total)
It's too far.
It's not that far.
Is it far from here?
Is it far?
Is the airport far?
It is far from Kansai.
South Africa is far away.
Is it far to town?
It's not far from here.
There is one, but it's a little far.
It is not far to Paris.
Hokkaido is very far, isn't it?
Is the zoo far from here?
Look at the distant horizon!
The pharmacy isn't far from the hospital.
Boston is very far, isn't it?
Is your school far from here?
I want to go to a faraway world.
His house is not far from here.
I want to go to a distant island.
It is far from here to Tokyo.
The sun is so distant from the earth.
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
The station is far from here.
It is not far away from the hotel.
The lake is a long way from here.
My efforts fall far short of what all of you have done.
Is the bank far from here?
The darkness is deep, and the dawn is far away.
My cram school is a long way from here.
Europe is a really far place.
It may be far from the center of the city.
It is very far as far as I know.
Tom is a distant relative of mine.
The post office is not far from your college.
The airport is quite far from the city centre.
Algeria is very far from New Zealand.
My country is far away from Japan.
People came from the farthest country.
It is a place that is by no means far.
The town is not that far from the mountain.
It's a bit far to walk there from here.
The hospital was far away from his village.
For a child, even a week is a distant future.
He lives far away from his hometown.
However, it is expected to return in the not too distant future.
A single point of light is visible, faintly in the distance.
However, perhaps because the distance is far, it does not hit.
A young girl came from a distant foreign country.
It was just that we spoke separated by a great distance.
His car broke down in remote countryside.
The island is cut off far from the mainland.
There were almost no railroads out west.
It is surely still far from the desired level.
His farm is remote from any town.
It will not be long before Scott gets well.
He is distantly related to her.
His house isn't far from this store.
Thank you for coming all this way.
I actually live not too far from here.
I want us to look ahead together to a distant and vast future.
It's far from ideal, but it's probably still better than last time.
Because it was far away and it was night, I could not read the characters written there.
How far is it from here to the sea?
There's a good restaurant not too far from here.
There is a shore not too far away, but it is too far to jump to.
I live miles away from the nearest station.
I have to commute all the way from a distant suburb.
My car is parked not far from here.
Some people live far removed from harsh realities.
I could see the blue sea, but it was farther than I had imagined.
It will not be long before man can travel to the moon.
The mountain I can see outside the window is still far, far away.
I wish I could swim as far as he can.
It's too far to walk to the station, so let's take a bus.
A sense of crisis different from before brings back a consciousness that had grown distant.
The hope that had briefly emerged has once again become distant.
Today we can go to distant countries easily by plane.
Letters are a link with friends who live far away.
The events that happened today seemed like a distant story.
The day when your light illuminates the world is not far off.
Why did you come all the way here from such a faraway place?
The day will soon come when we will conquer space and travel to the moon.
The scene was a tiny mountain village in a remote section of West Virginia.
It's just that we're too far away to make out the subtle changes.
It is too far to go on foot from here to the hotel. Better take a taxi.