adjacent
Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
Example
“Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.”
Other meanings
Just before, after, or facing.
“The picture is on the adjacent page.”
Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
Related words
- adjacentness
- circumadjacent
- coadjacent
- comic-adjacent
- subadjacent
- unadjacent
- adjacency
- adjacent angle
- adjacently
- nonadjacent
- fetish-adjacent
Word history
From Latin "adiacēns".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “adjacent” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.