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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Recent Examples of littoral

Adjective

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 In essence these are littoral mansions. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for littoral

Adjective

Under the glow of the coastal sun, past and present begin to quietly overlap.

— Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 22 Aug. 2026
Recent research shows that a rise in sea level driven by humans has increased the frequency of extreme coastal flooding around the world.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of coastal

Noun

Yermolaiev has lived in the glitzy city state on the Mediterranean coast for several years, having left Ukraine and renounced his Ukrainian citizenship in 2019 to become a citizen of Cyprus.

— Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
Navarro indicated that the hospital ship USNS Comfort, which was already in Peru in 2018 and 2019, will arrive in the northern Pacific coast of Peru in February 2027, when El Nino is expected to peak.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of coast

Adjective

While the strongest winds will remain offshore, a wind advisory is in effect for portions of Maui, Molokai, Lanai, Kahoolawe, and the Big Island until 6pm HST Sunday.

— Tyler Ory, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026
An offshore net capture by CASC and a vertical land landing by LandSpace.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of offshore

Noun

Deadly landslides struck Southern and Central California, wiping out hillside homes, and powerful waves pounded the state’s shoreline.

— Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
The team is analyzing microplastics painstakingly collected from plants, rocks, water samples and sticky traps erected along the shoreline.

— Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of shoreline

Noun

This area has been known for tuna fishing for thousands of years, with fisherman dwellings surviving along this stretch of coastline from the 1600s.

— Megan Rose Murray, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2026
Sam would draw a map, sketching out the coastline of the Levant and marking a dot.

— Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of coastline

Noun

Add a day trip or two to see more of Oregon’s Pacific seaboard.

— Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2026
In the 1700s, when West Africans were shackled and shipped to the South Carolina–Georgia seaboard, some were forced to work in rice paddies, in cotton fields, and on indigo plantations, where the moist climate resembled that of their homelands.

— jeanne malle, Air Mail, 4 July 2026

Definition of seaboard

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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