adjacent

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

adj. adjoining, near, close by, next to; touching, bordering, contiguous, neighboring. See contact. Ant., distant, remote, detached.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

Syn. nearby, neighboring, adjoining, contiguous, bordering, abutting, tangent, juxtaposed, proximate, next, beside, alongside, facing, conterminous, coterminous, close by; see also near 1 .

Syn.- adjacent things may or may not be in actual contact with each other, but they are not separated by things of the same kind [adjacent angles, adjacent farmhouses ] ; that which is adjoining something else touches it at some point or along a line [adjoining rooms ] ; things are contiguous when they touch along the whole or most of one side [contiguous farms ] ; tangent implies contact at a single, nonintersecting point with a curved line or surface [ a line tangent to a circle ] ; neighboring things lie near to each other [neighboring villages ]

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.

abutting, juxtaposed, near, close, adjoining, next to, aside, beside, neighboring, contiguous, alongside, bordering, proximate, meeting.

ANT.: distant, remote

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Not far from another in space, time, or relation: close, contiguous, immediate, near, nearby, nigh, proximate. Idioms: at hand, under one's nose, within a stone's throw, within hailing distance. See NEAR. 2. Sharing a common boundary: adjoining, conterminous, contiguous, next. See NEAR.