Synonyms for surrounding
səˈraʊn dɪŋ

Princeton's WordNet(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this antonym:

1. encompassing(a), surrounding(a), circumferentadjective

   closely encircling

   "encompassing mountain ranges"; "the surrounding countryside"

   Antonyms:
   distant

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1. circumfluent

   all around a particular place or thing.

   the surrounding countryside.

   Submitted by JP03 on January 29, 2015  

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(1.50 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. surroundingadjective

   Synonyms:
   circumambient, encompassing, encircling ambient, enveloping

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1. List of paraphrases for "surrounding":

   neighbouring, neighboring, nearby, ambient, around, outlying, takes, adjacent, bordering, encircling, moheet

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1. Gregory Taylor:

   The baby had presence of the virus in the cerebrospinal fluid, that’s the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord. But at this time the baby is normal.

2. Brian Schatz:

   I do want to separate the good-faith critiques of Section 230 and the questions surrounding antitrust, which are legitimate, that's not what this [ upcoming ] hearing is about, and that's not what this effort two weeks out from the election is. This is about just bludgeoning these CEOs into submission.

3. Chuck Carlson:

   There seems to be this perpetual stream of kind of quasi-negative news surrounding some of the really big market cap stocks, like Apple particularly, and anytime you have got Apple misbehaving that tends to put a damper on the averages.

4. Sanjay Mehrotra:

   We determined that we could lawfully resume shipping a subset of current products because they are not subject to export administration regulations and entity list restrictions, however, there is considerable ongoing uncertainty surrounding the Huawei situation, and we are unable to predict the volumes or time periods over which we will be able to ship products to Huawei.

5. Robert Mickens:

   It's very important that they do this right and I'm pretty sure that the date was chosen so that there wasn't a big media circus surrounding day one of the trial.

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