ADJACENT definition: lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring. See examples of adjacent used in a sentence.

adjacent, adjoining, contiguous, juxtaposed mean being in close proximity. adjacent may or may not imply contact but always implies absence of anything of the same kind in between.

ADJACENT definition: 1. very near, next to, or touching: 2. used in compounds to show that something is not exactly the…. Learn more.

Definition of adjacent adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026 ad•ja•cent (ə jā′ sənt), adj. lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the …

Adjacent angles, two angles that share a common ray Adjacent channel in broadcasting, a channel that is next to another channel Adjacency matrix, a matrix that represents a graph …

1. lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining. 2. just before, after, or facing: an adjacent page.

Next to or very near something else; neighbouring; bordering, contiguous; adjoining.

If one thing is adjacent to another, the two things are next to each other. He sat in an adjacent room and waited. The schools were adjacent but there were separate doors.

Adjacent means close to or near something. You may consider the people up and down your street to be neighbors, but your next-door neighbor is the person who lives in the house or …