adjacent

adjectivenounprepositionattested in dialogue

//əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt//

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

adjective

1
Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.
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2
Just before, after, or facing.
The picture is on the adjacent page.
3
figurativeRelated to; suggestive of; bordering on.
It would be false to suggest CBD is nothing more than an obsession for reiki-adjacent bicoastal millennials.
First of all, she's probably the most popular politics-adjacent figure in the country. She's not a politician. She's never run for anything, but I have said for a long time – I think we all agree – if she did ever want to run for something, she would be right at the front of the line.
He’s [Timothée Chalamet is] smug and entitled. He’s dismissive of opera and ballet. He’s Kardashian-adjacent.

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”).

noun

1
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.
Picking out the opposite, the adjacent, and the hypotenuse[…]

preposition

1
Next to; beside.
The house adjacent to the school was demolished.
A notice was sent to the house adjacent the school.
2
figurativeRelated 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.

Forms

plural: adjacents

adieu · Said to wish a final farewell; goodbye.adios · goodbye Aditya · Any of a group of solar deities, the sons of Aditi and…

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

adjourned · Having been adjourned; suspended or paused.adjust · To modify.adjusted · Which has been compensated in order to avoid bias.

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