COTERMINOUS Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

coterminous

adjective

(ˌ)kō-ˈtər-mə-nəs

Definition of coterminous

as in concurrent

existing or occurring at the same period of time the Alfred Lunt-Lynn Fontanne partnership was more or less coterminous with Broadway's golden age

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as in coinciding

occupying the same space Massachusetts' Nantucket County isn't quite coterminous with the island of the same name, as the county includes two small nearby islets

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Recent Examples of coterminous Politics are so digital at this point that the images saved on your phone are seen as coterminous with your personal beliefs. — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 2 July 2025 And the court said that town boundaries and school districts being coterminous is unconstitutional and causes the problem, and that hasn’t changed. — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024 This is a common attitude in competitive Duval County, which is coterminous with Jacksonville. — Monica Potts, ABC News, 19 July 2024 While colonial administrators imagined the West to be home to progress, order, and economic development, all of which were imagined as coterminous with whiteness, the East was imagined as its opposite. — Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2025 The nation’s period of domestic bliss was practically coterminous with the presidency of James Monroe, a Democratic-Republican whose landslide victory in 1816 accelerated the Federalist Party’s collapse. — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2024

Recent Examples of Synonyms for coterminous

Adjective

Missouri would be the only state in the country with such a requirement, often called a concurrent majority, according to a list of state ballot measure rules compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026
Separate from the murder case, Murdaugh pleaded guilty to dozens of financial crimes and remains behind bars on concurrent state and federal sentences of 27 and 40 years.

— Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 29 June 2026

Definition of concurrent

Adjective

Accelerating human evolution coincident with the development of agriculture increased redheadedness and decreased male-pattern baldness.

— Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
In a separate announcement, but with coincident timing, WestJet also announced a stopover plan in Calgary.

— Don Tse, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026

Definition of coincident

Adjective

The Discipline Underneath All leaders recognize the impact and risks of sharing information strategically, but great leaders know not to underestimate the underlying human emotion.

— Anna Jankowska, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
The underlying conditions are unlikely to change, with Jeffries stressing in a recent interview that his average contribution came from a small donor.

— Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 7 July 2026

Definition of underlying

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This 10,000-acre state park, an International Dark Sky Park, is considered one of the best places in West Virginia to see fireflies, including the synchronous type.

— Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 1 July 2026
And every spring, thousands of people throw their names into a lottery for a chance to witness synchronous fireflies in the Smokies.

— USA TODAY Network, USA Today, 10 June 2026

Definition of synchronous

Adjective

Instead, their ranges formed what researchers describe as a mosaic of separate, non-overlapping distributions.

— Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
There were four short docs released under the SNL50 banner, plus Questlove’s Ladies & Gentlemen…50 Years of SNL Music and Brent Hodge’s Downey Wrote That, all on Peacock and boasting myriad overlapping talking heads, filming locations and generally celebratory approaches to the beloved sketch show.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2026

Definition of overlapping

Adjective

That Iran targeted Bahrain likely was not coincidental.

— Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 27 June 2026
Born in Liverpool to a Norwegian father and a French mother in 2002, his middle name is Gerard, which feels too coincidental not to be linked with the Liverpool manager, Gerard Houllier, a Frenchman who was heavily involved with the France national team across his career.

— James Horncastle, New York Times, 26 June 2026

Definition of coincidental

Adjective

Beyond this subset of works, the chipmunk paintings are also coextensive with the entire body and thrust of her production.

— Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
How can its digital platforms become coextensive with its in-person programming, without losing the uniqueness of each?

— New York Times, New York Times, 21 May 2021

Definition of coextensive

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