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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By firing Oniks and Kalibr cruise missiles at maritime and coastal targets, the submarine demonstrated the operational use of two key weapons systems associated with the Yasen-M class.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
Gusts up to 60 mph are possible in parts of the Outer Banks by Sunday afternoon, with gusts approaching 50 mph farther inland in the state and up into parts of coastal Virginia and Maryland.

— Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of coastal

Noun

Destructive storms like Hurricane Milton in 2024, which made landfall on Florida’s west coast at Siesta Key, can destroy traps, make the water murky and otherwise cause complications for fishermen.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026
This protected pine forest on Noirmoutier’s northeast coast is home to multimillion-euro real estate, many of them second homes of Parisians or les Nantais.

— Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of coast

Adjective

Then the first stage will close its payload fairing and return to landing on an offshore platform for reuse.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026
As gusty winds begin to flow out of the northeast later this week, the combination of dry air and this offshore breeze will combine into an especially potent and widespread risk for spreading fire through Saturday across nearly the entire state.

— Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of offshore

Noun

California is flush with dumb money and bad judgment, and an insatiable romance with an epic 1,200-mile shoreline.

— Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
Jackie, who was estimated to be around 14 years old, died nearly a month after she was rescued from the Big Bear Lake shoreline, where she was found after being seen in a fight with two subadult eagles in July.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of shoreline

Noun

The worst of El Niño is still months away, but Southern California’s fragile coastline is already being transformed by record-setting king tides and storm surges.

— Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2026
Photos of the port and coastline in the late 1990s show minimal oil storage and loading infrastructure.

— semafor.com, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of coastline

Noun

That storm actually hit Florida’s Atlantic coast and moved up the Eastern seaboard, as forecasters had predicted.

— Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026
The weight of the Laurentide ice sheet that covered large parts of North America thousands of years ago pushed down the land below it, while causing the land around its edges to rise – including along the mid-Atlantic seaboard.

— Brian Tang, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 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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