adjacent
/əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/
adjacent adjective: lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
Adjective
adjacent (not comparable)
- Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
- Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:adjacent.
- Synonyms:
- abutting, adjoining, contiguous, juxtaposed, near, conterminous
- Antonyms:
- apart, distant, nonadjacent
- Just before, after, or facing.
- The picture is on the adjacent page.
- Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
- It would be false to suggest CBD is nothing more than an obsession for reiki-adjacent bicoastal millennials.2018 October 27, Alex Williams, “Why Is CBD Everywhere?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2022
- First of all, she's probably the most popular politics-adjacent figure in the country. She's not a politician. She's never run for anything, but I have said for a long time – I think we all agree – if she did ever want to run for something, she would be right at the front of the line.2018 December 25, “Faith Leaders Speak about Leading Through Natural Disasters; Who's Been Naughty and Nice in 2018 Politics?”, in New Day, Chris Cillizza (actor), via CNN, archived from the original...
Noun
adjacent (plural adjacents)
- Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.
- Again, the key colors have twice the area of the adjacents.1980, Faber Birren, The textile colorist
- Picking out the opposite, the adjacent, and the hypotenuse[…]2011, Mark Zegarelli, ACT Math For Dummies, page 194
Preposition
adjacent
- Next to; beside.
- The house adjacent to the school was demolished.
- A notice was sent to the house adjacent the school.
- Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
- While Amazon has increasingly become a one-stop shop for some people, we’re also seeing a large proliferation of online companies looking to connect with users wherever they happen to be spending the most time, whether that’s on a social media platform, or on a site that caters to interests...2008 March 27, Ingrid Lunden, “Braintree launches Extend to integrate loyalty, fraud prevention and other services into payments”, in TechCrunch, retrieved 26 Jul 2019
adjacent meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
adjacent in Hindi
- adjacent, next to
- सन्निकट sannikaṭ
- adjacent
- आसन्न āsann, बराबर barābar
adjacent in Tamil
- கோணலாக
adjacent in Urdu
- adjacent
- برابر barābar
adjacent in Bengali
- lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
- সন্নিহিত śonnihito, সংলগ্ন śoṅlogno, লাগোয়া lagōẇa
More languagesFewer languages
- adjacent in Malayalam
- തൊട്ടടുത്ത toṭṭaṭutta
- adjacent in Kannada
- ಮಗ್ಗುಲಿನ, ಒತ್ತಿನ, ಹೊದ್ದಿನ
- adjacent in Odia
- ନିକଟ nikaṭa
- adjacent in Assamese
- ওচৰ-পাঁজৰ üsor-pãzor
- adjacent in Tagalog
- tabi
- adjacent in Arabic
- مُجَاوِر mujāwir
- adjacent in Persian
- همسایه hamsâye, مجاور mojâver
- adjacent in Vietnamese
- bên cạnh, liền, nối
Examples of adjacent in a sentence
- Greater New York includes adjacent parts of three states, as well as the City itself.
- The sidewalk adjacent to the damaged bridge stonework shall be closed until further notice.
- The halt itself never achieved much importance, even with workers coming to and from the adjacent works.
Synonyms of adjacent
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Forms of adjacent
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Origin of adjacent
Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō (“to lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceō (“to lie down”).
Words formed from adjacent
Phrases with adjacent
Questions about adjacent
- What does adjacent mean?
- Adjacent means lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
- What is adjacent in Hindi?
- Adjacent in Hindi is सन्निकट (sannikaṭ), आसन्न (āsann), बराबर (barābar). See Adjacent meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is adjacent?
- Adjacent can be an adjective, a noun or a preposition.
- How do you pronounce adjacent?
- Adjacent is pronounced /əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/.
Words near adjacent in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: adjacent (page history and authors); आसन्न (Hindi) (page history and authors); adjacent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); برابر (Urdu) (page history and authors); adjacent (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ନିକଟ (Odia) (page history and authors); ওচৰ-পাঁজৰ (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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