adjacent

  • (s) nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space
    • had adjacent rooms
    • in the next room
    • the person sitting next to me
    • our rooms were side by side
    side by side, next,
  • (s) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching
    • 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
    neighboring, conterminous, contiguous,
  • (s) near or close to but not necessarily touching
    • lands adjacent to the mountains
    • New York and adjacent cities

Synonyms

side by side next neighboring conterminous contiguous

Words of close approximity