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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
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adjective |
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of, at, or near a coast.
She lives in a coastal town and likes to walk on the beach.The coastal storm sank several ships in the harbor.
- antonyms:
- inland
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adverb + (adj.)coastal
inland
(adj.)coastal
+ noun
aquaculture,
area,
barrier,
basin,
bay,
beach,
belt,
breeze,
city,
cliff,
climate,
command,
community,
coral,
current,
desert,
development,
dune,
dweller,
ecosystem,
environment,
erosion,
estuary,
fisherman,
fishery,
fishing,
flood,
flooding,
fog,
forest,
geologist,
habitat,
hamlet,
harbor,
hazard,
highway,
inlet,
island,
lagoon,
land,
landscape,
location,
mainland,
management,
marsh,
migration,
mountain,
north,
ocean,
patrol,
plain,
planning,
plantation,
pollution,
population,
port,
prairie,
property,
protection,
province,
rain,
range,
redwood,
reef,
region,
resident,
resort,
resource,
river,
road,
route,
salmon,
sand,
scrub,
seafood,
sediment,
settlement,
shark,
shelf,
shore,
south,
southeast,
species,
state,
storm,
strip,
swamp,
topography,
town,
trading,
trail,
vegetation,
vessel,
village,
water,
waterway,
wilderness,
zone
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The word coastal
contains the following part:
-al2, -ial, -ual
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means pertaining to
  More about this word part:
The suffix -al2, -ial
attaches primarily to nouns ( national
, environmental
) but sometimes to Latin or Greek roots ( final
, capital
, comical
) to form adjectives. See also -ar1.
Example words:
abnormal, accidental, additional, aerial, annual, artificial, biblical, brutal, capital, central, chemical, classical, coastal, colonial, comical, commercial, confidential, constitutional, continual, controversial, conventional, criminal, critical, crucial, cultural, cylindrical, dental, detrimental, developmental, economical, editorial, educational, electrical, emotional, environmental, essential, equal, exceptional, experimental, facial, factual, federal, final, financial, floral, formal, functional, fundamental, general, global, grammatical, habitual, historical, hysterical, illogical, immoral, impersonal, impractical, individual, industrial, influential, internal, legal, local, logical, lyrical, magical, mathematical, memorial, mental, moral, mortal, musical, mythical, national, natural, nautical, neutral, normal, official, parental, personal, plural, political, potential, racial, rational, regional, irrational, intellectual, rhythmical, seasonal, spinal, spiritual, technological, thermal, tidal, traditional, tribal, typical, universal, unnatural, verbal, virtual, vocal, visual
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