adjacent

adj

1. (not-comparable)Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.

   “Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.”

   “For quotations using this term, see Citations:adjacent.”

2. (not-comparable)Just before, after, or facing.

   “The picture is on the adjacent page.”

3. (figuratively, not-comparable, postpositional)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.”

   “He’s [Timothée Chalamet is] smug and entitled. He’s dismissive of opera and ballet. He’s Kardashian-adjacent.”

noun

1. 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

1. Next to; beside.

   “The house adjacent to the school was demolished.”

   “A notice was sent to the house adjacent the school.”

2. (figuratively)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.”