FRINGES Synonyms: 98 Similar and Opposite Words

fringes 1 of 2

noun

plural of fringe

as in edges

the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something was on the fringes of the crowd and couldn't see the speaker

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fringes

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verb

present tense third-person singular of fringe

as in adjoins

to be adjacent to the orchestral pit fringed the edge of the stage

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as in borders

to serve as a border for neat rows of red brick fringe the estate's flower beds

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Recent Examples of fringes

Noun

Many downtown streets were once canals, a tradition that continues in the rural fringes. —

Megan Janetsky, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026 There’s some dark subject matter, and some hard-luck people on the fringes. —

New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026 Unchecked urban expansion has pushed homes to the fringes of fire-prone woodlands, and the industrial forests planted by Chile’s timber industry have turned hillsides into tinderboxes. —

Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2026 Why book For that golden intersection of gripping design and home-grown, regenerative ideology, Fowlescombe Farm is remarkably quick to reach by train, despite its bona fide rural location on the fringes of Dartmoor. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026 The attack took place late on Tuesday in Pubagu, a community in a remote area on the fringes of Sambisa forest in Borno state, the epicenter of Nigeria's long fight against an Islamic insurgency. —

ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026 For years, criticism of Israel’s military actions was largely confined to the party’s fringes. —

Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 19 Apr. 2026 Soon, Callaghan — alongside Nic Mosher and Evan Gilbert-Katz — was traversing the country in a shabby RV, documenting the surreal, perturbing and often hilarious fringes of American culture. —

Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026 Elaborate Window Treatments Swags, jabots, fringes, tassels—’90s window treatments were nothing short of ambitious. —

Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Apr. 2026

Verb

On Israel, which fringes on both the Left and the Right have increasingly abandoned, Gallego questioned those who want to defund defensive support to the Middle Eastern nation. —

Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 5 Apr. 2026

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The big winner is expected to be hard-right party Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, which is aiming for working-class, former Labor strongholds in England’s north and on London’s outer edges with its anti-establishment, anti-immigration message.

— Jill Lawless, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
The trio is still enthralled by the pointed edges of post-punk that serve as the skeleton of most of their tracks.

— David Glickman, Pitchfork, 7 May 2026