Word Meanings - SURROUNDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inclosing; encircling.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SURROUNDING)

• About
• Almost
• near
• nearly
• touching
• concerning
• surrounding
• relative to
• relating to
• approximately
• roughly
• generally

Related words: (words related to SURROUNDING)

• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• TOUCHING
  Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale. -- Touch"ing*ly, adv.
• TOUCHY
  Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire. It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks. Saintsbury.
• RELATE
  1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy
• CONCERNEDLY
  In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically.
• RELATIVITY
  The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
• SURROUNDING
  Inclosing; encircling.
• TOUCHBACK
  The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.
• TOUCH-NEEDLE
  A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
• RELATRIX
  A female relator.
• NEARLY
  In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost.
• CONCERNING
  1. That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest. "Our everlasting concernments." I. Watts. To mix with thy concernments I desist. Milton. 2. Importance; moment; consequence. Let every action of concernment to begun with
• TOUCHHOLE
  The vent of a cannot or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge.
• GENERALLY
  1. In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently. 2. In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively. Generally speaking, they live very quietly. Addison. 3. Collectively; as a
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• RELATIONAL
  1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris.
• TOUCHINESS
  The quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.
• CONCERNED
  Disturbed; troubled; solicitous; as, to be much concerned for the safety of a friend.
• RELATED
  See 4 (more info) 1. Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree. 2. Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• UNCONCERNMENT
  The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. South.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• IRRELATIVE
  Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence
• CORRELATIVENESS
  Quality of being correlative.
• IRRELATION
  The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.
• PRELATEITY
  Prelacy. Milton.
• CORRELATE
  To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor.
• PRELATY
  Prelacy. Milton.
• UNPRELATED
  Deposed from the office of prelate.
• PRELATESHIP
  The office of a prelate. Harmar.
• INCONCERNING
  Unimportant; trifling. "Trifling and inconcerning matters." Fuller.
• RACEABOUT
  A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.