Antonyms for coast
koʊstcoast

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.9 / 7 votes

1. coast

   Bank is a general term for the land along the edge of a water course; it may also denote a raised portion of the bed of a river, lake, or ocean; as, the Banks of Newfoundland. A beach is a strip or expanse of incoherent wave-worn sand, which is often pebbly or full of boulders; we speak of the beach of a lake or ocean; a beach is sometimes found in the bend of a river. Strand is a more poetic term for a wave-washed shore, especially as a place for landing or embarking; as, the keel grates on the strand. The whole line of a country or continent that borders the sea is a coast. Shore is any land, whether cliff, or sand, or marsh, bordering water. We do not speak of the coast of a river, nor of the banks of the ocean, tho there may be banks by or under the sea. Edge is the line where land and water meet; as, the water's edge. Brink is the place from which one may fall; as, the river's brink; the brink of a precipice; the brink of ruin.

   Synonyms:
   bank, beach, border, bound, brim, brink, edge, marge, margin, rim, shore, strand

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1. • Glide
   • Slope
   • View

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. seashore, coast, seacoast, sea-coastnoun

   the shore of a sea or ocean

   Synonyms:
   slide, sea-coast, glide, seacoast, seashore

2. coastnoun

   a slope down which sleds may coast

   "when it snowed they made a coast on the golf course"

   Synonyms:
   slide, sea-coast, glide, seacoast, seashore

3. coastnoun

   the area within view

   "the coast is clear"

   Synonyms:
   slide, sea-coast, glide, seacoast, seashore

4. slide, glide, coastverb

   the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it

   "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope"

   Synonyms:
   seashore, semivowel, chute, sailing, slide, microscope slide, sea-coast, slideway, sliding board, swoop, lantern slide, soaring, gliding, seacoast, glide, playground slide, sailplaning, sloping trough

5. coastverb

   move effortlessly; by force of gravity

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1. coastnoun

   Synonyms:
   seashore, seaboard, seaside, shore, strand, beach

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. COAST

   Synonyms:
   Heparin-COAted Stents in Small Coronary Arteries Trial

How to use coast in a sentence?

1. Bill Hare:

   The Bureau of Meteorology and others have predicted another extremely dangerous fire season on the east coast and also in southwestern Australia, if that explodes again, it's going to be very damaging economically and also psychologically. I think people are scarcely recovering from the bushfires last year and early this year. So when you're looking at these regions now, you can see the damage has not been undone.

2. Joan Didion:

   California: The west coast of Iowa.

3. Will Watson:

   Whenever we engage – Coast Guard engages in a search and rescue effort – we are hopeful, you ca n’t do this workif you are not optimistic, if you are not hopeful when you do it.SoI will tell you that we remain hopeful.

4. Jim Donelon:

   I would tell them to do what our friends and neighbors over on the Gulf coast in Mississippi have been doing for the past 15 years, and that is to build higher and to build stronger.

5. Kishor Jaiswal:

   Earthquakes remain an important threat to our economy, while the West coast may carry the larger burden of potential losses and the greatest threat from the strongest shaking, this report shows that the threat from earthquakes is widespread.

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