verging
The word “verging” has 2 syllables: ver-ging
It's pronounced as /ˈvɜrdʒɪŋ/
What is synonym and antonym for verging?
In the thesaurus, “verging” has 78 synonyms and 62 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for verging along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for verging
- abutting
- adjacent
- adjoining
- ambient
- approaching
- approximal
- approximate
- arriving
- attached
- attaining
- bellying up
- bordering
- bordering on
- bounding
- circumjacent
- close
- closest
- closing
- closing in
- coming
- coming up
- communicating
- connected
- connecting
- conterminous
- contiguous
- coterminous
- creeping up
- drawing on
- embracing
- encircling
- enclosing
- encompassing
- fencing
- flanking
- flush
- fringing
- gaining
- hitting
- immediate
- impinging
- inclosing
- insignificant
- interconnecting
- joined
- joining
- juxtaposed
- landing
- linked
- low
- making
- marginal
- minimal
- minor
- near
- nearby
- nearest
- nearing
- negligible
- neighboring
- next door
- next-door
- nigh
- nighing
- on the edge
- peripheral
- reaching
- rimming
- showing up
- skirting
- small
- sneaking up
- surrounding
- tangent
- tangential
- touching
- turning up
- united
Antonyms for verging
- apart
- away
- broken up
- central
- clearing out
- core
- departing
- detached
- disconnected
- discontinuous
- discrete
- disjoined
- dissevered
- dissociated
- distant
- disunited
- divided
- divorced
- exiting
- far
- far-off
- faraway
- farthest
- free-standing
- going
- important
- interior
- internal
- isolate
- isolated
- leaving
- lighting out
- major
- nonadjacent
- noncontiguous
- noncontinuous
- parted
- pulling out
- quitting
- ramified
- receding
- remote
- removed
- removing
- resolved
- retiring
- retreating
- running away
- separate
- severed
- significant
- single
- split
- sundered
- taking off
- unattached
- unconnected
- uncoupled
- unlinked
- unyoked
- walking out
- withdrawing
Meanings of verging
- verb
- To be or come very close; to border; to approach.
- To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope.
- noun
- A neusis.
Example Sentences
- The discussion was verging on becoming heated, but they managed to stay calm.
- The landscape was verging on desert-like, with very little vegetation.
- His actions were verging on unethical, raising concerns among his colleagues.
- The team was verging on success after months of hard work and dedication.
- The weather is verging on extreme, with temperatures soaring to record highs.
On this page you'll find 140 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to verging, such as: abutting, adjacent, adjoining, ambient, apart, approaching, approximal.
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- ganging up
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neighboring
- abutting
- accessible
- adjacent
- adjoining
- ambient
- approaching
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- attached
- beside
- bordering
- bounding
- circumjacent
- close
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- immediate
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- marginal
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- meeting
- near
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- next door
- next-door
- nigh
- oncoming
- peripheral
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- rimming
- skirting
- surrounding
- tangent
- tangential
- to hand
- touching
- united
- upcoming
- verging
unalike
- a far cry from
- aberrant
- abnormal
- adverse
- all manner of
- alternate
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- anomalous
- antagonistic
- antipodal
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- antithetic
- antithetical
- apples and oranges
- assorted
- at odds
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- atypical
- changeable
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- clashing
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- contradistinct
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- diametric
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- discrete
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- dissimilar
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- divergent
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- facing
- factional
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- far cry from
- flip-side
- fronting
- heterogeneous
- hostile
- incommensurable
- incommensurate
- incomparable
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- incongruous
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- inconsonant
- independent
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- irregular
- legion
- like night and day
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- many
- many-sided
- miscellaneous
- mismatched
- mismated
- mixed
- mixed bag
- motley
- multifarious
- multiform
- multitudinal
- multitudinous
- nonidentical
- not alike
- not uniform
- numerous
- obverse
- odd
- off-key
- offbeat
- omnifarious
- opposed
- opposite
- ornery
- other
- otherwise
- paradoxical
- particular
- peculiar
- polar
- poles apart
- populous
- remaining
- repugnant
- retrograde
- reverse
- reversed
- separate
- several
- single
- sundry
- unconnected
- unequal
- unequivalent
- uneven
- unlike
- unmatched
- unnatural
- unrelated
- unsimilar
- untypical
- variable
- variant
- varied
- variegated
- various
- varying
- violative
- weird
tangential
- dead
- digressive
- divergent
- diverging
- empty
- extraneous
- immaterial
- impertinent
- inane
- inapplicable
- inapposite
- inappropriate
- inapt
- incidental
- inconsequential
- insignificant
- irrelative
- irrelevant
- meaningless
- moot
- peripheral
- pointless
- senseless
- tangent
- unimportant
- unrelated
- unsuitable
- useless
nearest
- abutting
- across the street
- adjacent
- adjoining
- affectionate
- after
- ahead
- alongside
- ambient
- ante
- antecedently
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- 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