Synonyms for fringe
frɪndʒfringe

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. fringenoun

   Synonyms:
   bangs, forelock

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. periphery, fringe, outer boundarynoun

   the outside boundary or surface of something

   Synonyms:
   outer boundary, periphery, interference fringe, outskirt, bang

2. outskirt, fringenoun

   a part of the city far removed from the center

   "they built a factory on the outskirts of the city"

   Synonyms:
   outer boundary, periphery, interference fringe, outskirt, bang

3. fringe, interference fringenoun

   one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light

   Synonyms:
   outer boundary, periphery, interference fringe, outskirt, bang

4. fringenoun

   a social group holding marginal or extreme views

   "members of the fringe believe we should be armed with guns at all times"

   Synonyms:
   outer boundary, periphery, interference fringe, outskirt, bang

5. bang, fringenoun

   a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead

   Synonyms:
   bang, outskirt, bam, rush, clap, periphery, strike, smasher, blast, thrill, kick, interference fringe, knock, charge, outer boundary, belt, hit, eruption, bash, flush, boot, smash

6. fringeverb

   an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels

   Synonyms:
   outer boundary, periphery, interference fringe, outskirt, bang

7. fringeverb

   adorn with a fringe

   "The weaver fringed the scarf"

8. fringeverb

   decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe

   "fur fringed the hem of the dress"

Matched Categories

1. • Adorn
   • Border
   • City District
   • Hairdo
   • Handicraft
   • Optical Phenomenon
   • Social Group

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. fringenoun

   Synonyms:
   edging, margin, confine, border, fimbriation

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "fringe":

   incidental, spin-off, bangs, margin, ancillary, social, collateral, brink, edge, periphery

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1. Scott Kupor:

   Things that are fringe today might become mainstream over time, if you think of autonomous driving, if you think about bitcoins or even drones for example, you could have found the historic analogues to those in probably in GitHub repositories five to seven years ago. So we are trying to find things like that that may not be mainstream today but are deeply in the tech community that have a following around them and hopefully can become mainstream technologies.

2. Randy Sutton:

   Tucker Isaacson personifies the lunatic fringe, here’s a guy who espouses not just radical views, but ignorant views.

3. Francis Collins:

   I did write that,and I will stand by that, basically, these fringe epidemiologists whoreally did not have thecredentials to be making sucha grand sweeping statement, were saying just let the virus run through the population andeventually then everybody would have had it and everything will be okay.

4. Steve Bannon:

   Ethno-nationalism -- it's losers. It's a fringe element. I think the media plays it up too much, and we gotta help crush it, you know, uh, help crush it more. These guys are a collection of clowns.

5. Shannan Velayas:

   This is moving from a peculiar fringe curiosity to a violent extremist movement.