farfetched
Something farfetched is imaginative but very unlikely. It's a lot easier to think of than to do.
Our brains can think of all sorts of ideas. Some are realistic, like going to the store or getting married. Others are farfetched: A far-fetched idea or plan is implausible because there's very little chance it will happen. Flying to Jupiter is far-fetched. Marrying a movie star is a far-fetched idea, and so is becoming a movie star. Far-fetched things aren't necessarily impossible, but they're very unlikely. Children are especially good at coming up with far-fetched notions because of their powerful imaginations. Note that this word is sometimes hyphenated as far-fetched.
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highly imaginative but unlikely“a farfetched excuse”synonyms: far-fetched, implausibleunlikelyhas little chance of being the case or coming about
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Vocabulary lists containing farfetched
While trying to track down her missing mother, thirteen-year-old Salamanca entertains her grandparents with strange stories about a girl named Phoebe Winterbottom.
After the Communist revolution in Cuba, fourteen-year-old Lucía Álvarez and her brother are sent to the United States to make a new life in Nebraska.
Twelve-year-old Anita has grown up in the Dominican Republic during the brutal Trujillo regime. When her family gets caught up in an attempt to overthrow the dictator, Anita must find her own path to freedom.