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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, relating to, at, or near a coast.
coastal citiesa coastal storm
- antonyms:
- inland
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adverb + (adj.)coastal
densely, inland
(adj.)coastal
+ noun
angler,
aquaculture,
area,
barrier,
basin,
bay,
beach,
belt,
biodiversity,
breeze,
city,
cleanup,
cliff,
climate,
command,
community,
coral,
current,
desert,
development,
dune,
dweller,
ecosystem,
elite,
enclave,
environment,
erosion,
estuary,
eutrophication,
fisherman,
fishery,
fishing,
flood,
flooding,
fog,
forest,
geologist,
habitat,
hamlet,
harbor,
hazard,
highway,
inlet,
island,
jurisdiction,
lagoon,
land,
landscape,
location,
lowland,
mainland,
management,
mangrove,
marsh,
migration,
mountain,
north,
ocean,
patrol,
plain,
planning,
plantation,
pollution,
population,
port,
prairie,
property,
protection,
province,
rain,
range,
redwood,
reef,
region,
resident,
resort,
resource,
restoration,
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,
wetland,
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, agricultural, ancestral, annual, arboreal, artificial, astral, bacterial, biblical, biographical, brutal, capital, central, ceremonial, chemical, classical, clinical, coastal, colonial, comical, commercial, confidential, constitutional, continental, 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, fluvial, formal, functional, fundamental, general, global, grammatical, guttural, habitual, historical, hysterical, illogical, immoral, impersonal, impractical, individual, industrial, ineffectual, influential, internal, legal, local, logical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, memorial, mental, moral, mortal, musical, mythical, national, natural, nautical, neutral, normal, official, parental, pastoral, personal, philosophical, plural, pluralism, pluralistic, political, potential, quizzical, racial, rational, regional, irrational, intellectual, rhythmical, sacrificial, seasonal, spinal, spiritual, technological, territorial, theatrical, thermal, tidal, traditional, tribal, typical, universal, unnatural, veridical, verbal, virtual, vocal, visual
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