adjacent
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3.8
- adjective
- /əˈdʒeɪsənt/
:
adyacente
- The new café is located in the building adjacent to the library.
- adjacent areas
- immediately adjacent
- adjacent land
Each vertex in the set is adjacent to each of the others.
- Each vertex in the set is adjacent to each of the others.
- Like there is no bulging musculature adjacent to my spine.
- There's still cool stuff happening adjacent to it, but whatever.
- And then that decision leads to dream adjacent, right?
Examples
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We then go park in this parking lot that's adjacent to the bank.
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I walked through the busy kitchen and into an adjacent sitting room, looking for a phone.
Fiction book (1992) -
We have cars on all adjacent streets.
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All gates are adjacent to one another.
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It's adjacent to the scene of the murders.
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I rose to meet her in the square adjacent to the Bar Sirena.
Fiction book (1991) -
The two of you went right back to talking, as I sat in the recliner adjacent to your love seat.
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To address family concerns, the community constructed a traditional open-air meeting house adjacent to the isolation ward.
Academic text (2011) -
Children with parental permission were individually escorted to a private room adjacent to their classroom.
Academic text (1999) -
The polar bear is found mainly in the Arctic Circle and the adjacent land masses as far south as Newfoundland island.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Near in space, time, or degree
∞
1.0
Right beside another thing with nothing between them
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1.0
At a short distance in space or time
98
2.2
Next to each other in the same place
13
7.0
Next to each other and touching, like two places that share a border
1
9.5
Next to another place and sharing a border
Next to another place or area, sharing a border
Antonyms
How Close
Surface Forms
Morphology
adjacent = ad + jacent
Although analyzable into Latin elements (ad- + jacent), the root 'jacent' is not a standalone English word and the adjective is a learned borrowing, so learners cannot reliably derive its meaning from the parts.
Etymology
Adjacent comes from Latin parts ad- 'to' and jacere 'to lie', so it originally meant 'to lie next to'. That's why adjacent describes something that is right next to or very near another thing.