Standard Lemma guide

adjacent

adj · noun · prep · 9 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/
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  • CMU ARPABET: AH0 JH EY1 S AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:adjacent.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: abutting, adjoining, contiguous, juxtaposed, near

Antonyms: apart, distant, nonadjacent

2

adj

Meaning 2

Just before, after, or facing.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • The picture is on the adjacent page.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively, not-comparable, postpositional

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

prep

Meaning 5

Next to; beside.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • The house adjacent to the school was demolished.
  • A notice was sent to the house adjacent the school.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

prep

Meaning 6

Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

adjective satellite

Meaning 7

near or close to but not necessarily touching

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • lands adjacent to the mountains
  • New York and adjacent cities

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

adjective satellite

Meaning 8

nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • had adjacent rooms
  • in the next room
  • the person sitting next to me
  • our rooms were side by side

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: next, side by side(p)

Antonyms: none provided

9

adjective satellite

Meaning 9

having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • 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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: conterminous, contiguous, neighboring(a)

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh1- Proto-Indo-European *-kt Proto-Indo-European *(H)yéh1kt ~ *(H)ih1kéntder. Latin iaciō Proto-Indo-European *-éh1ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh1yeti Proto-Italic *-ēō Latin -eō 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”).

Across languages

Translations

99 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مُجَاوِر (mujāwir) — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Azerbaijani: bitişik — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Azerbaijani: yanaşıq — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Basque: ondoan — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Basque: aldamenean — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Basque: aldean — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Basque: alboan — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Bengali: সন্নিহিত (śonnihito) — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Bengali: সংলগ্ন (śoṅlogno) — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Bengali: লাগোয়া (lagōẇa) — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Bulgarian: близък (blizǎk) — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Bulgarian: съседен (sǎseden) — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Bulgarian: допиращ се (dopirašt se) — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Catalan: adjacent — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鄰近的 /邻近的 (línjìn de) — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Chinese Mandarin: 毗鄰的 /毗邻的 (pílín de) — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Czech: přilehlý — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Danish: tilstødende — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Danish: tilliggende — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Danish: ved siden af — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Dutch: aanpalend — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Dutch: er naast liggend — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Dutch: aangrenzend — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Dutch: belendend — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Dutch: aanliggend — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Esperanto: najbara — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Esperanto: apuda — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Finnish: viereinen — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • French: adjacent — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Galician: adxacente — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Galician: contiguo — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • German: daneben — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • German: anliegend — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • German: benachbart — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • German: adjazent — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Hungarian: szomszédos — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Hungarian: mellette lévő — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Ido: adjacanta — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Italian: adiacente — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Japanese: 隣接 — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Malayalam: തൊട്ടടുത്ത (toṭṭaṭutta) — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Manchu: ᠠᡩᠠᡴᡳ (adaki) — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Māori: tūtata — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Māori: pātata — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Māori: kāpīpiti — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Māori: piritaha — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Norwegian: nabo- — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Norwegian: ved siden av — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tilstøtende — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Occitan: adjacent — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Persian: همسایه (hamsâye) — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Persian: مجاور (mojâver) — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Polish: przyległy — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Polish: przylegający — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Portuguese: adjacente — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Romanian: adiacent — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Russian: сосе́дний (sosédnij) — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Russian: прилега́ющий (prilegájuščij) — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Russian: примыка́ющий (primykájuščij) — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Scottish Gaelic: dlùth — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Slovak: priľahlý — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Slovak: vedľajší — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Spanish: adyacente — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Spanish: colindante — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Spanish: contiguo — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Swedish: intilliggande — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Swedish: angränsande — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Tagalog: tabi — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Venetan: adiaxente — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Vietnamese: bên cạnh — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Vietnamese: liền — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Vietnamese: nối — lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring
  • Arabic: مُجَاوِر (mujāwir) — just before, after, or facing
  • Bulgarian: съседен (sǎseden) — just before, after, or facing
  • Czech: přilehlý — just before, after, or facing
  • Dutch: aanpalend — just before, after, or facing
  • Dutch: tegenoverstaand — just before, after, or facing
  • Finnish: viereinen — just before, after, or facing
  • German: umliegend — just before, after, or facing
  • German: nachfolgend — just before, after, or facing
  • German: darauffolgend — just before, after, or facing
  • Italian: adiacente — just before, after, or facing
  • Malayalam: തൊട്ടടുത്ത (toṭṭaṭutta) — just before, after, or facing
  • Norwegian: foregående — just before, after, or facing
  • Norwegian: forutgående — just before, after, or facing
  • Norwegian: etterfølgende — just before, after, or facing
  • Norwegian: følgende — just before, after, or facing
  • Norwegian: påfølgende — just before, after, or facing
  • Norwegian: neste — just before, after, or facing
  • Norwegian: motsatt — just before, after, or facing
  • Portuguese: adjacente — just before, after, or facing
  • Russian: сосе́дний (sosédnij) — just before, after, or facing
  • Russian: прилега́ющий (prilegájuščij) — just before, after, or facing
  • Slovak: susedný — just before, after, or facing
  • Slovak: vedľajší — just before, after, or facing
  • Slovak: priľahlý — just before, after, or facing
  • Vietnamese: liền — just before, after, or facing
  • Japanese: らしい (rashii) — (postpositive) suggestive of, bordering on
  • Japanese: ではんばかりな (dewan bakari-na) — (postpositive) suggestive of, bordering on
Real reading context

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