coastal

Questions about coastal

What does coastal mean?

coastal means "of or relating to a coast". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coastal?

coastal has 2 syllables: coa-stal. The stress falls on "coa". In IPA it is /ˈkoʊstəl/.

What is the opposite of coastal?

The recorded antonyms are inland.

Is coastal a common word?

coastal is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.