touching

Synonyms

abutting, adjacent, adjoining, bordering, conterminous, contiguous, flanking, flush, fringing, joining, juxtaposed, neighboring, skirting, verging;

Antonyms

nonadjacent, noncontiguous;

Near Antonyms

apart, detached, disconnected, discrete, free-standing, isolate, isolated, removed, separate, single, unattached, unconnected, unlinked;

away, distant, far, faraway, far-off, farthest, remote;

discontinuous, noncontinuous;

broken up, disjoined, dissevered, dissociated, disunited, divided, divorced, parted, ramified, resolved, severed, split, sundered, uncoupled, unyoked;

Related Words

approximate, close, closest, immediate, near, nearby, nearest, next-door, nigh;

attached, communicating, connected, connecting, interconnecting, joined, linked, united;

bounding, circumjacent, embracing, encircling, enclosing (also inclosing), fencing, rimming, surrounding;

marginal, peripheral, tangent, tangential;

ambient, encompassing;

Synonyms

about, apropos, apropos of, as far as, as for, as regards (also as respects), as to, concerning, of, on, regarding, respecting, toward (or towards);

Related Words

over;

Phrases

in regard to, in respect to, in view of, with regard to, with respect to;