adjacent

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsnextside by side

   Similarclose
2. 2.

   having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching

   “Rhode Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and Connecticut”

   “the side of Germany conterminous with France”

   “Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho”

   “neighboring cities”

   Synonymsconterminouscontiguousneighboring

   Similarconnected
3. 3.

   near or close to but not necessarily touching

   “lands adjacent to the mountains”

   “New York and adjacent cities”

   Similarnear

Questions about adjacent

What does adjacent mean?

adjacent means "nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in adjacent?

adjacent has 3 syllables: ad-ja-cent. The stress falls on "ja". In IPA it is /əˈdʒeɪsənt/.

What is another word for adjacent?

Close synonyms include next, side by side, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adjacent a common word?

adjacent is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.