Synonyms for adjacent
əˈdʒeɪ səntad·ja·cent

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1. adjacentadjective

   Next to; adjacent to; beside.

   Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.

   Synonyms:
   juxtaposed, contiguous, abutting, adjoining, near

   Antonyms:
   distant, apart, nonadjacent

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1. adjacent

   Adjacent farms may not be connected; if adjoining, they meet at the boundary-line. Conterminous would imply that their dimensions were exactly equal on the side where they adjoin. Contiguous may be used for either adjacent or adjoining. Abutting refers rather to the end of one building or estate than to the neighborhood of another. Buildings may be adjacent or adjoining that are not attached. Near is a relative word, places being called near upon the railroad which would elsewhere be deemed remote. Neighboring always implies such proximity that the inhabitants may be neighbors. Next views some object as the nearest of several or many; next neighbor implies a neighborhood.

   Synonyms:
   abutting, adjoining, attached, beside, bordering, close, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, near, neighboring, next, nigh

   Antonyms:
   detached, disconnected, disjoined, distant, remote, separate

   Preposition:
   The farm was adjacent to the village.

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1. adjacent, next, side by side(p)adjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   far, unconnected, distant

2. adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring(a)adjective

   having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching

   "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"

   Antonyms:
   far, distant, unconnected

3. adjacentadjective

   near or close to but not necessarily touching

   "lands adjacent to the mountains"; "New York and adjacent cities"

   Synonyms:
   neighboring(a), contiguous, conterminous, side by side(p), next

   Antonyms:
   distant, far, unconnected

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1. adjacentadjective

   Synonyms:
   adjoining, conterminous, neighboring, near, close, bordering, contiguous, in proximity

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1. adjacentadjective

   Synonyms:
   adjoining, contiguous

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1. List of paraphrases for "adjacent":

   adjoining, contiguous, neighbouring, neighboring, nearby, proximity, near, vicinity, surrounding, close, peripheral, neighbours, side, neighbour

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1. Allan Bradley:

   The cell will try to stitch things back together, but it doesn’t really know what bits of DNA lie adjacent to each other.

2. Ben Marsh:

   I have seen where people, most often unwittingly shared misinformation that came from a QAnon or a Q-adjacent source.

3. Jaap Bonjer:

   We only included patients whose cancers had not invaded adjacent organs such as the bladder and ureters, with patients who have larger cancers, it needs to be done open because it's too complex to do laparoscopically.

4. Rite Aid:

   The shooting happened adjacent to the primary building.

5. Guy Cecil:

   I think our coverage is saturated with the Mueller investigation and everything that is adjacent to it, i don't think there is much more to gain for Democratic politician to spend much of their time talking about these things.