Definition
Until now; previously; yet.
A limited distance, literal or metaphorical.
Origins
Compound of so + far. Compare Dutch zo ver.
In Context
- "So far, nothing unusual has happened."
- "―How are your driving lessons? ―So far, pretty good."
- "Don’t expect a long walk. You can only go so far in that direction."
- "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."
- "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."