neighbor

The word “neighbor” has 2 syllables: neigh-bor

It's pronounced as /ˈneɪ.bər/


What is synonym and antonym for neighbor?

In the thesaurus, “neighbor” has 79 synonyms and 5 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for neighbor along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for neighbor

  • abut
  • acquaintance
  • adjoin
  • baby
  • be adjacent
  • be contiguous
  • be near
  • be nearby
  • being
  • bird
  • bod
  • body
  • border
  • bound
  • brother
  • butt against
  • bystander
  • celebrity
  • character
  • communicate
  • connect
  • contact
  • converge
  • cookie
  • cooky
  • creature
  • customer
  • devil
  • duck
  • egg
  • embrace
  • encircle
  • enclose
  • face
  • fellow
  • fellowman
  • fence
  • fish
  • flank
  • friend
  • fringe
  • guy
  • head
  • hominid
  • homo
  • human
  • human being
  • humanoid
  • inclose
  • individual
  • join
  • life
  • line
  • man
  • march
  • margin
  • meet
  • mortal
  • nearby resident
  • next-door neighbor
  • party
  • person
  • personage
  • personality
  • rim
  • scout
  • self
  • skirt
  • slob
  • somebody
  • sort
  • soul
  • specimen
  • stiff
  • surround
  • thing
  • touch
  • verge
  • wight

Antonyms for neighbor

  • animal
  • beast
  • beastie
  • brute
  • critter

Meanings of neighbor

  • noun
    1. A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.
    2. One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
    3. A fellow human being.
  • verb
    1. To be adjacent to.
    2. (followed by "on"; figurative) To be similar to, to be almost the same as.
    3. To associate intimately with; to be close to.

Example Sentences

  • Our new neighbor brought us a basket of homemade cookies.
  • I asked my neighbor to water my plants while I was on vacation.
  • The kids love playing with the dog next door, but their neighbor prefers peace and quiet.
  • My neighbor and I share a fence between our backyards.
  • The elderly neighbor across the street enjoys telling stories about the old days.

On this page you'll find 84 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to neighbor, such as: abut, acquaintance, adjoin, animal, baby, be adjacent, be contiguous.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

baby

  • Lilliputian
  • accomplishment
  • achievement
  • acquirement
  • angelface
  • appease
  • arrival
  • atomic
  • attainment
  • babe
  • bairn
  • bambino
  • bantling
  • bawler
  • being
  • bellyacher
  • bird
  • bitsy
  • bitty
  • bleater
  • blockbuster
  • bod
  • body
  • boy
  • brother
  • bundle
  • buttercup
  • button
  • cater to
  • celebrity
  • character
  • cherish
  • cherub
  • chick
  • child
  • cocker
  • coddle
  • complainer
  • completion
  • conquest
  • consummation
  • content
  • cookie
  • cooky
  • cosset
  • coup
  • crab
  • crawler
  • creature
  • crybaby
  • cuddle
  • culmination
  • customer
  • dandle
  • deed
  • delight
  • devil
  • diminutive
  • dinky
  • dote on
  • duck
  • dumpling
  • dwarf
  • dwarfish
  • egg
  • elfin
  • execution
  • face
  • feat
  • fellow
  • fellowman
  • fish
  • foster
  • foundling
  • fruition
  • fulfillment
  • fulfilment
  • fussbudget
  • fusser
  • fusspot
  • gain
  • girl
  • gladden
  • gratify
  • griper
  • grumbler
  • grump
  • guy
  • half-pint
  • head
  • hit
  • hominid
  • homo
  • hoyden
  • human
  • human being
  • humanoid
  • humor
  • imp
  • implementation
  • individual
  • indulge
  • infant
  • infinitesimal
  • insignificant
  • itsy-bitsy
  • itty-bitty
  • jackpot
  • juvenile
  • kid
  • kiddie
  • kiddo
  • kiddy
  • kvetch
  • kvetcher
  • life
  • little
  • little angel
  • little bitty
  • little darling
  • little doll
  • little one
  • malcontent
  • man
  • megahit
  • micro
  • microminiature
  • microscopic
  • microscopical
  • mini
  • miniature
  • minikin
  • minor
  • minuscule
  • minute
  • miracle
  • moaner
  • model
  • mollify
  • mollycoddle
  • moppet
  • mortal
  • mother
  • neighbor
  • neonate
  • newborn
  • nipper
  • nurse
  • nursling
  • oblige
  • overindulge
  • pacify
  • pamper
  • papoose
  • party
  • performance
  • person
  • personage
  • personality
  • pet
  • petite
  • pint-size
  • pint-sized
  • placate
  • please
  • pocket
  • pocket-size
  • pocket-sized
  • preemie
  • premie
  • puny
  • pygmy
  • realization
  • satisfy
  • scaled-down
  • scout
  • screamer
  • scrubby
  • self
  • serve
  • skill
  • slob
  • small
  • small-scale
  • smallish
  • smash
  • sniveler
  • somebody
  • son of man
  • soothe
  • sort
  • soul
  • specimen
  • spoil
  • squawker
  • squirt
  • stiff
  • success
  • suckling
  • tad
  • teensy
  • teensy-weensy
  • teeny
  • teeny-weeny
  • thing
  • tike
  • tiny
  • toddler
  • tomboy
  • tot
  • toy
  • triumph
  • tyke
  • undersize
  • undersized
  • urchin
  • victory
  • wailer
  • wee
  • weensy
  • weeny
  • weeper
  • wet-nurse
  • whiner
  • whippersnapper
  • wight
  • win
  • winner
  • youngling
  • youngster
  • youth

face

  • Potemkin village
  • abide
  • abut
  • accost
  • adjoin
  • affectation
  • affront
  • air
  • allow
  • apparel
  • appearance
  • approach
  • array
  • arrogance
  • aspect
  • assurance
  • assuredness
  • audaciousness
  • audacity
  • authoritarianism
  • baby
  • back talk
  • battle
  • be confronted by
  • be turned toward
  • bear
  • beard
  • bearing
  • being
  • bird
  • bit the bullet
  • blanket
  • bod
  • body
  • boldness
  • border
  • bound
  • brace
  • brashness
  • brass
  • brassiness
  • brave
  • brazen
  • brazenness
  • breast
  • brook
  • brother
  • cast
  • celebrity
  • certainty
  • certitude
  • challenge
  • character
  • cheek
  • cheekiness
  • chutzpa
  • chutzpah
  • clad
  • cloak
  • clock
  • clothe
  • coat
  • cockiness
  • cocksureness
  • combat
  • command
  • confidence
  • confront
  • contend
  • conviction
  • cookie
  • cooky
  • cope with
  • corner
  • countenance
  • court
  • cover
  • covering
  • creature
  • cross
  • crust
  • customer
  • dare
  • deal with
  • decisiveness
  • decorate
  • defy
  • demeanor
  • demonstration
  • determination
  • devil
  • dial
  • dignity
  • discourteousness
  • disguise
  • display
  • disrespect
  • dogmatism
  • dominate
  • doubtlessness
  • dress
  • duck
  • effect
  • effrontery
  • egg
  • embosom
  • embower
  • embrace
  • emulate
  • encase
  • enclose
  • encompass
  • encounter
  • endure
  • engage
  • enshroud
  • envelop
  • enwrap
  • experience
  • expression
  • exterior
  • eyeball
  • facade
  • facet
  • facing
  • false front
  • features
  • fellow
  • fellowman
  • fiction
  • fight
  • finish
  • firmness
  • first blush
  • fish
  • flinch
  • fly in face of
  • forehead
  • forepart
  • fringe
  • front
  • front onto
  • frontage
  • frontal
  • frontispiece
  • frown
  • gall
  • garb
  • gaze
  • glare
  • gloss
  • glower
  • go up against
  • grapple with
  • grimace
  • grin
  • growl
  • guise
  • guy
  • hardihood
  • head
  • hint
  • hominid
  • homo
  • honor
  • human
  • human being
  • humanoid
  • hutzpa
  • hutzpah
  • image
  • imitation
  • impertinence
  • implication
  • impoliteness
  • imposture
  • impression
  • impudence
  • incivility
  • inclose
  • inconsiderateness
  • inconsideration
  • individual
  • insinuation
  • insolence
  • invest
  • kisser
  • lap
  • level
  • life
  • light
  • likeness
  • line
  • lineaments
  • look
  • looks
  • lour
  • lower
  • make a stand
  • make-belief
  • make-believe
  • makeup
  • man
  • manner
  • mantle
  • map
  • margin
  • mask
  • masquerade
  • meet
  • mien
  • mortal
  • moue
  • mouth
  • mow
  • mug
  • name
  • neighbor
  • nerve
  • nerviness
  • obverse
  • oppose
  • outbrave
  • outface
  • outside
  • outward
  • overconfidence
  • overlay
  • overlook
  • overspread
  • paint
  • pan
  • party
  • patina
  • person
  • personage
  • personality
  • pertness
  • physiognomy
  • plaster
  • polish
  • pose
  • positiveness
  • pout
  • presence
  • presentation
  • prestige
  • presumption
  • presumptuousness
  • pretence
  • pretense
  • profile
  • purposefulness
  • puss
  • redecorate
  • refinish
  • remodel
  • repel
  • representation
  • reputation
  • resemblance
  • resist
  • resoluteness
  • resolution
  • resolve
  • rictus
  • rim
  • risk
  • rival
  • robe
  • rudeness
  • run into
  • sanguinity
  • sass
  • satisfaction
  • sauce
  • sauciness
  • scoff
  • scout
  • scowl
  • seeming
  • self
  • self-assurance
  • self-confidence
  • self-respect
  • semblance
  • shape
  • sheath
  • sheathe
  • shell
  • shingle
  • show
  • showing
  • shroud
  • side
  • silhouette
  • simper
  • simulacrum
  • simulation
  • skin
  • skirt
  • slob
  • smile
  • smirk
  • smooth
  • snarl
  • sneer
  • snoot
  • social position
  • somebody
  • son of man
  • sort
  • soul
  • specimen
  • square off
  • squinch
  • stand
  • stand up to
  • standing
  • stare
  • stiff
  • stomach
  • submit
  • suffer
  • suggestion
  • sureness
  • surety
  • surface
  • surround
  • sustain
  • swagger
  • swallow
  • swash
  • swathe
  • take
  • take it
  • take on
  • take the bull by the horns
  • tell off
  • temerity
  • thing
  • tolerate
  • top
  • touch
  • ungraciousness
  • veil
  • veneer
  • venture
  • visage
  • watch
  • wight
  • wince
  • withstand
  • wrap

palm

  • abut
  • adhere
  • adjoin
  • annex
  • appendage
  • apperceive
  • appropriate
  • arrest
  • bays
  • be in contact
  • bind
  • blowout
  • blue-ribbon
  • booty
  • border
  • borrow
  • bottle up
  • brush
  • bury
  • butt on
  • cache
  • capture
  • caress
  • carry
  • catch
  • chaplet
  • check
  • cherish
  • citation
  • clasp
  • cleave
  • clench
  • clinch
  • cling
  • clutch
  • come together
  • communicate
  • conceal
  • confine
  • conquest
  • contact
  • contain
  • converge
  • cop
  • cork up
  • coronal
  • counterfeit
  • cover
  • cover up
  • cradle
  • crib
  • crown
  • cup
  • dab
  • decoration
  • deposit
  • detain
  • disguise
  • distort
  • ditch
  • duke
  • eject
  • embrace
  • enclose
  • enjoy
  • ensconce
  • entail
  • examine
  • explore
  • extremity
  • fake
  • falsify
  • feel
  • feel up
  • festoon
  • filch
  • fin
  • finesse
  • finger
  • fist
  • fob off
  • foist
  • fondle
  • force
  • forge
  • freeze to
  • frisk
  • fumble
  • glance
  • gold
  • gold star
  • grapple
  • grasp
  • graze
  • grip
  • grope
  • guerdon
  • handle
  • hang on
  • harbor
  • have
  • hide out
  • hit
  • hold
  • honors
  • hook
  • hug
  • impinge upon
  • impose
  • imprison
  • inflict
  • inspect
  • join
  • keep
  • keep close
  • keep out
  • keep quiet
  • keep secret
  • keep to oneself
  • keep under wraps
  • keepsake
  • kiss
  • landslide
  • laugher
  • laurel
  • laurels
  • lay a finger on
  • liberate
  • lick
  • lift
  • line
  • lock up
  • maintain
  • make a pretense of
  • manhandle
  • manipulate
  • march
  • massage
  • mastery
  • maul
  • medal
  • meet
  • memento
  • memorial
  • metacarpus
  • misrepresent
  • mitt
  • moonlight
  • neighbor
  • not let go
  • nourish
  • occupy
  • osculate
  • own
  • palm off
  • palpate
  • paper
  • partake
  • pass off
  • pat
  • paw
  • perceive
  • percuss
  • pet
  • pinch
  • plant
  • pluck
  • ply
  • poke
  • possess
  • press
  • prize
  • probe
  • purloin
  • push
  • put a lock on
  • reach
  • reminder
  • requisition
  • restrain
  • retain
  • ribbon
  • rip off
  • rob
  • romp
  • rub
  • run hands over
  • runaway
  • scrounge
  • scrutinize
  • seclude
  • secure
  • seize
  • send forth
  • sense
  • shaker
  • shroud
  • shutout
  • sip
  • smooth
  • snare
  • snatch
  • souvenir
  • spoils
  • squeaker
  • squeeze
  • squirrel
  • stash
  • stash away
  • stay put
  • stick
  • stonewall
  • stow
  • strike
  • stroke
  • subjugation
  • success
  • suck
  • sweep
  • sweep under rug
  • swipe
  • tag
  • take
  • takeover
  • tap
  • taste
  • test
  • thieve
  • thumb
  • tickle
  • tip
  • token
  • toy
  • toy with
  • trammel
  • triumph
  • try
  • twiddle
  • vanquishing
  • veil
  • verge
  • victory
  • vise
  • walk off with
  • walkaway
  • walkover
  • whitewash
  • wield
  • win
  • wish
  • withhold
  • work off
  • wreath
  • wring

abut

  • adjoin
  • be adjacent to
  • border on
  • bound
  • butt against
  • contact
  • converge
  • embrace
  • encircle
  • enclose
  • fence
  • flank
  • fringe
  • inclose
  • join
  • line
  • margin
  • meet
  • neighbor
  • rim
  • skirt
  • surround
  • touch

egg

  • baby
  • being
  • bird
  • bod
  • body
  • brother
  • bud
  • cackle
  • cackleberry
  • celebrity
  • character
  • cookie
  • cooky
  • creature
  • customer
  • devil
  • drive
  • duck
  • exhort
  • face
  • fellow
  • fellowman
  • fish
  • flog
  • germ
  • goad
  • guy
  • head
  • herd
  • hominid
  • homo
  • hound
  • human
  • human being
  • humanoid
  • individual
  • life
  • man
  • mortal
  • neighbor
  • nucleus
  • oospore
  • ovum
  • party
  • person
  • personage
  • personality
  • press
  • prick
  • prod
  • prompt
  • punch
  • roe
  • rudiment
  • run
  • scourge
  • scout
  • self
  • shepherd
  • slob
  • somebody
  • son of man
  • sort
  • soul
  • spawn
  • specimen
  • spur
  • stiff
  • thing
  • whip
  • wight
  • wrangle
  • yellow eye

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