Synonyms of fringing

fringing 1 of 2

adjective

as in adjacent

having a border in common

fringing nations fighting over territory on their shared border

Synonyms & Similar Words

• adjacent
• adjoining
• neighboring
• bordering
• closest
• joining
• contiguous
• abutting
• flanking
• attached
• touching
• verging
• skirting
• close
• conterminous
• united
• nearest
• juxtaposed
• surrounding
• nearby
• near
• flush
• connecting
• linked
• marginal
• connected
• fencing
• peripheral
• next-door
• communicating
• encircling
• joined
• approximate
• bounding
• embracing
• immediate
• nigh
• enclosing
• tangential
• ambient
• circumjacent
• tangent
• interconnecting
• rimming
• encompassing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

fringing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of fringe

1

as in adjoining

to be adjacent to

the orchestral pit fringed the edge of the stage

Synonyms & Similar Words

• adjoining
• flanking
• joining
• surrounding
• touching
• neighboring
• abutting
• skirting
• lining
• marching (with)
• bordering (on)
• butting (on or against)
• verging (on)
• connecting (with)
• attaching (to)
• communicating (with)
• bounding
• encircling
• linking (with)
• meeting
• enclosing
• converging
• embracing
• fencing
• contacting
• rimming
• margining

2

as in bordering

to serve as a border for

neat rows of red brick fringe the estate's flower beds

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bordering
• bounding
• surrounding
• edging
• skirting
• rimming
• framing
• margining
• encircling
• trimming
• hemming
• circling
• defining
• looping
• outlining
• tracing
• demarcating
• rounding
• enclosing
• silhouetting
• sketching
• ringing
• circumscribing
• environing
• restricting
• delineating
• limiting
• walling
• curbing
• confining
• girdling
• restraining
• controlling
• checking
• girthing
• compassing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of fringing

Adjective

In Ocho Rios, the vast fringing reef shelf has drop-offs on the northern side perfect for spotting diverse soft and hard corals like staghorn, sea fan and brain coral. — Adrienne Jordan, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025

Verb

Sustainability is a priority at Sal Salis, with the 16 eco-luxury safari tents designed for minimal impact, just metres from the largest fringing reef in the world, its barefoot luxury as nature intended. — Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026

An easy 10-minute swim will have you on the fringing reef, with slivers of multi-coloured fish, gliding turtles and epic coral formations. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026

But in 2015, that changed when the sea ice fringing this vast, icy continent stopped expanding and began to decline dramatically. — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 8 May 2026

Chromatic aberration is very well controlled, with minimal color fringing even when shooting wide open. — Tantse Walter, Space.com, 18 Feb. 2026

Details like eyelash fringing, subtle embroidery, and embossed velvet designs are an easy way to dress up a mundane sectional or lackluster white couch. — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 20 Jan. 2026

As the sun has grown subtly brighter over this span, if this supercontinent struggled with high carbon dioxide levels like its Pangaean forebear did, then this would be an inimically hot world to animals, except for lone refuges fringing its polar far reaches. — Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025

The islands that became the Outer Banks fringing the North Carolina coast first appeared 15,000 years ago, when sea levels dropped and the nation’s shoreline migrated inward from the continental shelf, Young said. — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025