neighboring

The word “neighboring” has 3 syllables: nei-bor-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈneɪ.bər.ɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for neighboring?

In the thesaurus, “neighboring” has 67 synonyms and 41 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for neighboring along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for neighboring

  • abutting
  • accessible
  • adjacent
  • adjoining
  • ambient
  • approaching
  • approximate
  • at hand
  • attached
  • beside
  • bordering
  • bounding
  • circumjacent
  • close
  • close-in
  • close-up
  • closest
  • coming
  • communicating
  • connected
  • connecting
  • contacting
  • conterminous
  • contiguous
  • convenient
  • converging
  • embracing
  • encircling
  • enclosing
  • encompassing
  • fencing
  • flanking
  • flush
  • forthcoming
  • fringing
  • hand-to-hand
  • handy
  • immediate
  • inclosing
  • interconnecting
  • joined
  • joining
  • juxtaposed
  • lining
  • linked
  • marginal
  • margining
  • meeting
  • near
  • nearby
  • nearest
  • next door
  • next-door
  • nigh
  • oncoming
  • peripheral
  • proximate
  • rimming
  • skirting
  • surrounding
  • tangent
  • tangential
  • to hand
  • touching
  • united
  • upcoming
  • verging

Antonyms for neighboring

  • apart
  • away
  • broken up
  • deep
  • detached
  • disconnected
  • discontinuous
  • discrete
  • disjoined
  • dissevered
  • dissociated
  • distant
  • disunited
  • divided
  • divorced
  • far
  • far-off
  • faraway
  • farthest
  • free-standing
  • isolate
  • isolated
  • nonadjacent
  • noncontiguous
  • noncontinuous
  • parted
  • ramified
  • remote
  • removed
  • resolved
  • separate
  • separated
  • severed
  • single
  • split
  • sundered
  • unattached
  • unconnected
  • uncoupled
  • unlinked
  • unyoked

Meanings of neighboring

  • adjective
    1. Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.
  • verb
    1. To be adjacent to.
    2. (followed by "on"; figurative) To be similar to, to be almost the same as.
    3. To associate intimately with; to be close to.

Example Sentences

  • The neighboring towns often collaborate on community events and festivals.
  • We enjoyed exploring the neighboring park that had beautiful walking trails.
  • The neighboring farms produce a variety of fruits and vegetables for the local market.
  • Many animals from the neighboring forest can be spotted in our backyard.
  • The neighboring school district offers excellent educational programs for students.

On this page you'll find 108 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to neighboring, such as: abutting, accessible, adjacent, adjoining, ambient, apart, approaching.

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Related Words

facing

  • abutting
  • accosting
  • adjoining
  • affronting
  • appareling
  • apparelling
  • appearance
  • applique
  • approaching
  • arraying
  • backing
  • battling
  • bearding
  • binding
  • blanketing
  • bordering
  • bounding
  • braid
  • braving
  • brazening
  • breasting
  • challenging
  • cladding
  • clothing
  • combating
  • combatting
  • commanding
  • confronting
  • contending
  • cornering
  • cover
  • covering
  • daring
  • defying
  • disguise
  • dominating
  • dressing
  • embosoming
  • embowering
  • embracing
  • embroidery
  • emulating
  • encasing
  • enclosing
  • encompassing
  • encountering
  • engaging
  • enshrouding
  • enveloping
  • enwrapping
  • exterior
  • facade
  • face
  • fighting
  • folds
  • fringing
  • front
  • fronting
  • garbing
  • guise
  • hem
  • inclosing
  • investing
  • lapping
  • lining
  • mantling
  • margining
  • mask
  • meeting
  • neighboring
  • opposing
  • outbraving
  • outfacing
  • outside
  • overlay
  • overlaying
  • overlooking
  • overspreading
  • piping
  • repelling
  • resisting
  • revetment
  • rimming
  • rivaling
  • rivalling
  • robing
  • semblance
  • sheathing
  • shell
  • show
  • shrouding
  • siding
  • skin
  • skinning
  • skirting
  • standing
  • standing up to
  • surface
  • surrounding
  • swathing
  • taking on
  • top
  • touching
  • trim
  • tucks
  • veiling
  • veneer
  • withstanding
  • wrapping

back-to-back

  • abutting
  • adjacent
  • adjoining
  • after
  • alongside
  • attached
  • beside
  • close
  • closest
  • coming
  • consecutive
  • consecutively
  • consequent
  • constant
  • constantly
  • continually
  • continuingly
  • continuous
  • continuously
  • coterminous
  • ensuing
  • following
  • hand running
  • hard by
  • in series
  • later
  • meeting
  • nearest
  • neighboring
  • next
  • night and day
  • on end
  • on the side
  • posterior
  • proximate
  • repeatedly
  • running
  • sequent
  • sequential
  • sequentially
  • serial
  • serially
  • seriatim
  • side-by-side
  • straight
  • subsequent
  • subsequently
  • succeeding
  • successional
  • successionally
  • successive
  • successively
  • together
  • touching
  • unceasingly
  • uninterrupted
  • uninterruptedly

near

  • about
  • abreast
  • abutting
  • accessible
  • accessibly
  • accurate
  • across
  • adjacent
  • adjoin
  • adjoining
  • adoring
  • advance
  • affable
  • affecting
  • affectionate
  • after a fashion
  • akin
  • alike
  • all but
  • allied
  • almost
  • along
  • along toward
  • alongside
  • amicable
  • analogous
  • appreciably
  • approach
  • approaching
  • approximal
  • approximate
  • approximately
  • around
  • arrive
  • as good as
  • at
  • at close quarters
  • at hand
  • attached
  • attain
  • available
  • belly up
  • beside
  • boon
  • border
  • bordering
  • borderline
  • bosom
  • buddy-buddy
  • burning
  • by
  • by and large
  • chiefly
  • chummy
  • circa
  • clannish
  • close
  • close in
  • close shave
  • close-at-hand
  • close-by
  • close-in
  • close-knit
  • close-up
  • closely
  • closer
  • come
  • come up
  • comfortable
  • coming
  • companionable
  • comparable
  • comparative
  • compelling
  • confidential
  • connected
  • conterminous
  • contiguous
  • convenient
  • conveniently
  • convincing
  • convivial
  • cordial
  • cozy
  • creep up
  • dear
  • devoted
  • draw on
  • drop in
  • easy
  • enter
  • equal
  • equivalent
  • especial
  • expected
  • expressive
  • fair
  • fairly
  • faithful
  • familiar
  • feckly
  • fond
  • fore
  • forthcoming
  • forward
  • friendly
  • front
  • gain
  • generally
  • genial
  • gracious
  • graphic
  • graphical
  • gregarious
  • gritty
  • hand-to-hand
  • handily
  • handy
  • hard
  • hearty
  • hereabout
  • hereabouts
  • hereaway
  • hereaways
  • hit
  • hither
  • immediate
  • imminent
  • impending
  • in
  • in close proximity
  • in the offing
  • inseparable
  • inside
  • intimate
  • inward
  • just about
  • kind of
  • land
  • largely
  • lifelike
  • like
  • living
  • looming
  • loosely
  • loving
  • mainly
  • make
  • matching
  • more or less
  • most
  • mostly
  • much
  • natural
  • naturalist
  • naturalistic
  • near-at-hand
  • nearby
  • nearly
  • neighboring
  • neighborly
  • next
  • next door
  • next door to
  • next to
  • next-door
  • nigh
  • nigher
  • nominally
  • not remote
  • oncoming
  • partially
  • partly
  • photo-realistic
  • plus or minus
  • practically
  • pretty much
  • proximal
  • proximate
  • reach
  • ready
  • realistic
  • related
  • relative
  • resembling
  • roughly
  • say
  • secretive
  • show up
  • side-by-side
  • similar
  • sneak up
  • snug
  • sociable
  • social
  • some
  • somewhat
  • somewhere
  • somewhere about
  • somewhere around
  • tender
  • tenderhearted
  • thereabout
  • thereabouts
  • thick
  • this
  • three-dimensional
  • tight
  • tight-knit
  • to hand
  • touch
  • touching
  • toward
  • towards
  • true
  • turn up
  • upcoming
  • verge
  • verisimilar
  • vincinal
  • virtually
  • vivid
  • warm
  • well-nigh
  • within an inch of
  • within call

nearby

  • about
  • abutting
  • accessible
  • accessibly
  • across
  • adjacent
  • adjoining
  • along
  • alongside
  • approaching
  • around
  • at close quarters
  • at hand
  • below
  • beneath
  • beyond
  • bordering
  • by
  • close
  • close at hand
  • close-at-hand
  • close-by
  • close-in
  • close-up
  • coming
  • contiguous
  • convenient
  • conveniently
  • forthcoming
  • hand-to-hand
  • handily
  • handy
  • hard
  • hereabout
  • hereabouts
  • hereaway
  • hereaways
  • immediate
  • in
  • near
  • near-at-hand
  • neighboring
  • next-door
  • nigh
  • not far away
  • oncoming
  • outside
  • over
  • past
  • proximate
  • ready
  • thereabout
  • thereabouts
  • through
  • throughout
  • to hand
  • under
  • underneath
  • upcoming
  • via
  • within call

nearest

  • abutting
  • across the street
  • adjacent
  • adjoining
  • affectionate
  • after
  • ahead
  • alongside
  • ambient
  • ante
  • antecedently
  • approaching
  • approximate
  • around the corner
  • at hand
  • attached
  • back-to-back
  • before
  • beforehand
  • beside
  • betwixt and between
  • bordering
  • borderline
  • bosom
  • bounding
  • buddy-buddy
  • central
  • cherished
  • chummy
  • circumjacent
  • close
  • closest
  • clubby
  • comfy
  • coming
  • communicating
  • confidential
  • connected
  • connecting
  • consequent
  • conterminous
  • contiguous
  • convenient
  • coterminous
  • cozy
  • dear
  • dearest
  • direct
  • embracing
  • encircling
  • enclosing
  • encompassing
  • ensuing
  • equidistant
  • faithful
  • fast
  • fencing
  • firsthand
  • flanking
  • flush
  • following
  • fond
  • forward
  • fringing
  • give or take a little
  • gray
  • grey
  • halfway
  • handy
  • hard by
  • immediate
  • imminent
  • impending
  • in advance
  • in spitting distance
  • in the ball park
  • in-between
  • inclosing
  • inmost
  • inner
  • innermost
  • interconnecting
  • intermediary
  • intermediate
  • joined
  • joining
  • juxtaposed
  • later
  • linked
  • loving
  • marginal
  • medial
  • median
  • mediate
  • medium
  • meeting
  • mellow
  • mid
  • middle
  • midmost
  • mix
  • near
  • near-at-hand
  • nearby
  • nearly
  • neighboring
  • next
  • next-door
  • nice
  • nigh
  • on the side
  • peripheral
  • precedently
  • previous
  • primary
  • proximal
  • proximate
  • recent
  • regular
  • rimming
  • roommate
  • side-by-side
  • skirting
  • snug
  • subsequent
  • succeeding
  • surrounding
  • tangent
  • tangential
  • touching
  • united
  • verging
  • warm

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