English Synonym Finder

surrounding

Definitions

The area or conditions immediately around a person or thing.

Situated all around something; encircling or enclosing.

Examples

The surrounding mountains were covered in a thick blanket of snow.

She felt uneasy about the strange silence surrounding the old house.

The police cordoned off the area surrounding the crime scene.

Synonyms

encircling encompassing neighboring adjacent bordering circumjacent ambient

Antonyms

central distant remote far isolated inner interior