Word Type

Adjective

Adjective

Preposition

Noun

The word "adjacent" can be used as adjective, adjective, preposition and noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

apart

Derived Terms

adjacency adjacent angle adjacently adjacentness circumadjacent coadjacent comic-adjacent fetish-adjacent nonadjacent subadjacent unadjacent

Distinct From

distant nonadjacent

Context

us

Related Terms

adjace adjacency adjacent to adjacently after before beside bordering contiguous facing hypotenuse neighboring next to opposite right triangle

Similar Terms

close connected near near nigh

Synonym Network

abutting adjoining contiguous juxtaposed near neighboring side by side

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.