| Main Entry: | frontier |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boundary |
Synonyms: |
borderland, borderline, bound, confines, edge, limit, march, perimeter, verge |
| Main Entry: | frontier |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unexplored, unoccupied area of land |
Synonyms: |
backcountry, backwater, backwoods, boondocks, boonies, bush, hinterland, outback, outskirts, sticks, unknown* |
Antonyms: |
metropolis |
| Main Entry: | backwoods |
| Part of Speech: | noun, adjective |
| Definition: | forests; land distant from settled area |
Synonyms: |
backcountry, boondocks, frontier, hinterland, interior, isolation, outback, rural area, sticks, terra incognita, timberland, woodland |
| Main Entry: | boundary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outer limit |
Synonyms: |
abuttals, ambit, barrier, beginning, border, borderland, borderline, bounds, brink, circumference, circumscription, compass, confines, edge, end, environs, extent, extremity, frame, fringe, frontier, hem, horizon, limits, line, line of demarcation, march, margin, mark, mere, mete, outline, outpost, pale, perimeter, periphery, precinct, purlieus, radius, rim, side, skirt, terminal, termination, terminus, verge |
Antonyms: |
inside, interior, minimum |
| Main Entry: | brink |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | edge of an object or area |
Synonyms: |
border, boundary, brim, fringe, frontier, limit, lip, margin, perimeter, periphery, point, rim, skirt, threshold, verge |
Antonyms: |
center, interior, middle |
| Main Entry: | colonial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pioneering, relating to a nonindependent or new territory |
Synonyms: |
crude, dependent, dominion, early American, emigrant, frontier, immigrant, new, outland, pilgrim, pioneer, prerevolutionary, primitive, provincial, puritan, territorial, transplanted, uncultured, unsettled, unsophisticated, wild |
Antonyms: |
modern, new |
| Main Entry: | edge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | border, outline |
Synonyms: |
bend, berm, bound, boundary, brim, brink, butt, circumference, contour, corner, crook, crust, curb, end, extremity, frame, fringe, frontier, hem, hook, ledge, limb, limit, line, lip, margin, molding, mouth, outskirt, peak, perimeter, periphery, point, portal, rim, ring, shore, side, skirt, split, strand, term, threshold, tip, trimming, turn, verge |
Antonyms: |
center, inside, interior, middle, surface |
| Main Entry: | extremity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ultimate; limit |
Synonyms: |
acme, acuteness, adversity, apex, apogee, border, bound, boundary, brim, brink, butt, climax, consummation, crisis, depth, dire straits, disaster, edge, end, excess, extreme, extremes, frontier, height, last, margin, maximum, nadir, outside, pinnacle, plight, pole, remote, rim, setback, terminal, termination, terminus, tip, top, trouble, verge, vertex, zenith |
| Main Entry: | hinterland |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | backcountry |
Synonyms: |
boondocks, boonies, borderland, brush, bush country, frontier, outback, sticks, wasteland, wilderness, woods |
| Main Entry: | limit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical boundary |
Synonyms: |
border, borderland, compass, confines, edge, end, extent, extreme, extremity, frontier, perimeter, periphery, precinct, purlieu |
| Notes: | delimit means to draw the boundaries or limits of something; limit (noun) means the greatest possible degree of something or the point beyond which something cannot or may not proceed - limit (verb) means to restrict or confine limit marks an end to something; limitation is the extent of one's capacity or a constraint that stops something |
Antonyms: |
limitlessness |