so far

so far

See also: sofar and şofar

English

Etymology

Compound of so + far. Compare Dutch zo ver.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

so far

1. (idiomatic) Until now; previously; yet.

   So far, nothing unusual has happened.

   How are your driving lessons?  So far, pretty good.

2. (idiomatic) A limited distance, literal or metaphorical.

   Don't expect a long walk.  You can only go so far in that direction.

   • 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, OCLC 5661828:

     As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.

   • 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.

Synonyms

• (until now): hitherto, thus far; see also Thesaurus:hitherto

Derived terms

• so close, and yet so far
• so far so good

Translations

until now; previously; yet

Arabic: حَتَّى الْآنَ‎ (ḥattā l-ʾāna) Bulgarian: досега́ (bg) (dosegá) Catalan: fins ara Chinese: Mandarin: 到目前為止／到目前为止 (dào mùqián wéizhǐ), 迄今 (zh) (qìjīn), 迄今為止／迄今为止 (zh) (qìjīn wéizhǐ), 至今 (zh) (zhìjīn) Czech: doposud (cs), až dosud Danish: hidtil Dutch: tot nu toe, tot zover, tot dusver, totnogtoe, tot hiertoe Finnish: tähän mennessä, toistaiseksi (fi) French: jusqu'à maintenant, jusqu'à présent (fr), jusqu'alors (fr) Georgian: აქამდე (akamde) German: bislang (de), bisher (de), bis jetzt Hebrew: עד כה‎ Hungarian: idáig (hu), eddig (hu), mindeddig (hu), mostanáig Irish: go dtí seo Italian: finora (it) Japanese: 今まで (いままで, ima-made), これまで (kore-made), これまでのところ (kore-made-no tokoro) Korean: 여태 (ko) (yeotae), 지금까지 (jigeumkkaji) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: heya vêga, heta niha (ku) Latin: adhūc (la), hactenus (la), dumtaxat Lithuanian: iki šiol Norwegian: Bokmål: hittil (no), så langt Nynorsk: hittil, så langt Polish: dotychczas (pl), dotąd (pl) Portuguese: até agora Russian: пока́ что (ru) (poká što), до сих по́р (ru) (do six pór), пока́ (ru) (poká), на да́нный моме́нт (na dánnyj momént), на настоя́щий моме́нт (na nastojáščij momént), пре́жде (ru) (préžde), поны́не (ru) (ponýne), доны́не (ru) (donýne) Scottish Gaelic: thuige seo Serbo-Croatian: dosad (sh) Slovak: doposiaľ, doteraz Slovene: do zdaj Spanish: hasta ahora, hasta la fecha, hasta aquí, hasta este momento, por el momento, por ahora Swedish: hittills (sv), än så länge Ukrainian: поки що (poky ščo), до́сі (dósi), поки́ (poký), нара́зі (narázi), на да́ний моме́нт (na dányj momént), на сього́дні (na sʹohódni) Welsh: hyd yn hyn

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