Synonyms for beside
bɪˈsaɪdbe·side

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1. beside

   Adjacent farms may not be connected; if adjoining, they meet at the boundary-line. Conterminous would imply that their dimensions were exactly equal on the side where they adjoin. Contiguous may be used for either adjacent or adjoining. Abutting refers rather to the end of one building or estate than to the neighborhood of another. Buildings may be adjacent or adjoining that are not attached. Near is a relative word, places being called near upon the railroad which would elsewhere be deemed remote. Neighboring always implies such proximity that the inhabitants may be neighbors. Next views some object as the nearest of several or many; next neighbor implies a neighborhood.

   Synonyms:
   abutting, adjacent, adjoining, attached, bordering, close, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, near, neighboring, next, nigh

   Antonyms:
   detached, disconnected, disjoined, distant, remote, separate

   Preposition:
   The farm was adjacent to the village.

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1. beside

   Synonyms:
   close, near, alongside, additionally, over and above, together, moreover

   Antonyms:
   separate, apart, inclusively

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1. besideprep.

   Synonyms:
   near, close to, at the side of, by the side of

2. besideprep.

   Synonyms:
   except, save, over and above, in addition to, distinct from

3. besideprep.

   Synonyms:
   aside from, out of the way of, out of the course of, not according to

4. besideprep.

   Synonyms:
   out of, not in possession of

5. besideadjective

   Synonyms:
   moreover, yet, too, also, furthermore, more than that, over and above, in addition

6. besideadjective

   Synonyms:
   else

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1. List of paraphrases for "beside":

   alongside, besides, near

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1. Anthony Sadler:

   I woke up to basically people ducking and then I was, like, 'Why is everybody ducking?' and then, when I turned round to look, he, the gunman, had just entered the car with the AK and then I was, like: 'This is really happening', we just all ran back there and we tried to do whatever we could to try and beat him up so he didn't shoot anybody. He pulled out a box cutter and cut Spencer a couple of times but beside that we just tried to do whatever we could.

2. Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 154:

   If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.

3. unknown:

   There are times she is kneeling out of obedience, reverence and respect. Those are the times it is okay to stand above her. But when she is kneeling because the weight of the world is just too heavy to bear...that is when you should be kneeling beside her.

4. Emily Dial:

   It made it even more special that she works beside her delivery team every day, as soon as I arrived, I could feel the love in the room.

5. Pastor Blair:

   I am beside myself with frustration that our tax dollars go to promote a drag queen show and safe sex events with carnival games that are obscene and graphic, yet when it comes to something like debating Darwinian evolution or talking about the literal Creation account of Genesis – well that kind of speech must be censored.