LITTORAL Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

ˈli-tə-rəl

Definition of littoral

as in coastal

of, relating to, or situated in the waters near the shore littoral warfare includes amphibious landings

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Adjective

The search and rescue operation, now in its ninth day, has covered more than 4,600 square miles of sea and littoral zone, currently adding more than 1,000 square miles per day. — Akram Oubachir, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2026 The emerging ability of sea drones to detect and disable sea mines and spot submarines was supposed to be a core feature of Navy littoral combat ships. — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026

Noun

Hailing from the peninsula’s steppe interior, mountainous east, and Black Sea littoral, this population tended to be devoutly Muslim and, for the most part, had never been fully at ease with the republic’s secularist founding project. — Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024 The historical lands of the Swahili are on east Africa’s Indian Ocean littoral. — John M. Mugane, Quartz, 5 Apr. 2022 See All Example Sentences for littoral

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The move will put the mobile coastal weapon closer to Taiwan than during its previous deployment in Japan and comes as Washington and Tokyo expand their ability to operate in the islands stretching toward the Taiwan Strait.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026
California’s plan to save coastal homes from El Niño could end up killing beaches.

— Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of coastal

Noun

Should cabin fever somehow strike, the hotel can arrange adventures further afield, from whale-watching and boat trips along the Costa Del Sol coast to private hikes through the Andalusian mountains and even cheesemaking at a local goat farm.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2026
Long, planetary waves push the warm water to our coast and also raise the sea level, according to Clarissa Anderson, director of the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

— Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of coast

Adjective

While rivals such as Goldwind have focused on building bigger turbines, Vestas capped its offshore models at around 15 megawatts.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
The island also houses over 200 blue holes (the highest concentration of sinkholes and cave systems in the world) that demand exploration, both in its forests and offshore anchor points.

— Joey Skladany, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of offshore

Noun

Guests must either fly into Nassau and take a 10-minute flight to Fresh Creek Airport, or book one of the property’s Coco seaplanes from Fort Lauderdale with a direct route to its iconic shoreline.

— Joey Skladany, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026
Which other creature would have laid its eggs in such a place—which other creature would have had that distant memory of a shoreline buried deep inside?

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of shoreline

Noun

The state’s coastlines have been inundated with high surf for much of the summer, leading to severe erosion at some of the state’s most popular beaches.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
But the wild and remote coastline’s dramatic transformation had long been expected, according to NPS.

— Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of coastline

Noun

Today, Tropea onions -- which bear protected geographical produce, or IGP, status -- grow on a 60-mile stretch of Calabrian coastland running from the town of Amantea down to the Capo Vaticano peninsula, below Tropea.

— Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
The storm is projected to move slowly up the coastland and could bring torrential rain over several days, said meteorologist Donald Jones of the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

— Juan A. Lozano, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2021

Definition of coastland

Noun

Though a seashore and park can be different in some respects, two laws dating to the 1970s direct the National Park Service to manage and regulate parks and seashores using the same standards.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Long after all humans have vanished from our planet, some extragalactic visitors might land gently on an empty seashore, throw a bucket into the sea and haul up samples of bacteria.

— Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of seashore

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