adjacent

Plural: adjacents

Adjective Satellite

• nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space
  • "had adjacent rooms"
• having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching
• near or close to but not necessarily touching
  • "lands adjacent to the mountains"
  • "New York and adjacent cities"

Adj

• Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
• Just before, after, or facing.
• Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

Noun

• Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.

Prep

• Next to; beside.
• Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

Adjective

• Next to or adjoining something else.

Examples

• A notice was sent to the house adjacent the school.
• Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.
• Placing a tile adjacent to a double-letter score is always a good move.
• The house adjacent to the school was demolished.
• The picture is on the adjacent page.

Synonyms

conterminous, contiguous, neighboring, next, side by side, abutting, adjoining, juxtaposed, near

Antonyms

apart, distant, nonadjacent

Anagrams of adjacent