Adjacent
[adj] near or close to but not necessarily touching; "lands adjacent to the mountains"; "New York and adjacent cities"
[adj] nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space; "had adjacent rooms"; "in the next room"; "the person sitting next to me"; "our rooms were side by side"
[adj] having a common boundary or edge; touching; "abutting lots"; "adjoining rooms"; "Rhode Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"; "the side of Germany conterminous with France"; "Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho"; "neighboring cities"
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Synonyms
abutting, adjoining, bordering(a), close, connected, conterminous, contiguous, near, neighboring(a), next, side by side(p)
Related Terms
abutting, adjoining, attached, bordering, close-by, closest, connected, connecting, consecutive, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, end to end, endways, endwise, face to face, handy, immediate, joined, juxtaposed, juxtapositional, juxtapositive, linke