adjacent
/əˈd͡ʒeɪ.sənt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.12 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
adj
Just before, after, or facing.
adj
Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
noun
Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.
prep
Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
Example Sentences
- "Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room."
- "For quotations using this term, see Citations:adjacent."
- "The picture is on the adjacent page."
- "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 *-ējō Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁tiinflu. 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”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin