adjacent

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   near or close to but not necessarily touching

   lands adjacent to the mountains

2. 2
   adj

   Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.

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

3. 3
   adj

   Just before, after, or facing.

   The picture is on the adjacent page.

4. 4
   adj

   Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

   It would be false to suggest CBD is nothing more than an obsession for reiki-adjacent bicoastal millennials.

5. 5
   noun

   Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.

   Again, the key colors have twice the area of the adjacents.

6. 6
   prep

   Next to; beside.

   The house adjacent to the school was demolished.

7. 7
   prep

   Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

   While Amazon has increasingly become a one-stop shop for some people, we’re also seeing a large proliferation of online companies looking to connect with users wherever they happen to be spending the most time, whether that’s on a social media platform, or on a site that caters to interests adjacent to the businesses’s own — and most importantly not necessarily on the company’s own web properties.

8. 8
   adj

   nearest in space or position

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- Proto-Italic *jakēō Latin iaceō Latin adiaceō Latin adiacēnsder. English adjacent Borrowed from Latin adiacēns, adiacentis, derivative of adiaceō (“to lie beside”); from ad (“to”) + iaceō (“to lie down”).