Adjacent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Close to; lying near: adjacent cities.
  • adj. Next to; adjoining: adjacent garden plots.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
  • adj. Just before, after, or facing.
  • n. Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.
  • preposition. Next to; adjacent to; beside.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
  • adj. See Angle.
  • n. That which is adjacent.
  • n. such as have one leg common to both angles.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: as, a field adjacent to the highway.
  • n. That which is next or contiguous; an abutting neighbor.
  • n. In logic, a predicate.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching
  • adj. nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space
  • adj. near or close to but not necessarily touching
  • Equivalent
    connected    close    nigh    near    contiguous angle   
    Antonym
    apart    distant    separate   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    near    contiguous    adjoining    neighboring    conterminous    bordering    touching    abutting   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    complacent    complaisant    nascent   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    nearby    central    outer    eastern    outlying    respective    rocky    circular    distant    inland