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In some senses, adjacent is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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.
Just before, after, or facing.
The picture is on the adjacent page.
Related 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.
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.
Picking out the opposite, the adjacent, and the hypotenuse[…]
prep
Next to; beside.
The house adjacent to the school was demolished.
A notice was sent to the house adjacent the school.
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.