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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | next to, abutting |
| Synonyms: | adjoining, alongside, beside, bordering, close, close by, contiguous, near, neighboring, next door, touching |
| Notes: | adjacent means next to but not necessarily connected with, while adjoining means next to and connected - adjacent rooms are separated by a wall, adjoining are connected by a common door; things are adjacent when they are side by side, they are adjoining when they share a common boundary and adjacent may or may not imply contact but always implies absence of anything of the same kind in between |
| Antonyms: | apart, away, detached, disconnected, distant, far, faraway, nonadjacent, remote, separate |
| Main Entry: | next |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coming immediately after in space, time, order |
| Synonyms: | abutting, adjacent, adjoining, after, alongside, attached, back-to-back, beside, close, closest, coming, consequent, coterminous, ensuing, following, hard by, later, meeting, nearest, neighboring, on the side, proximate, side-by-side, subsequent, succeeding, touching |
| Antonyms: | earlier, preceding, previous |
| Main Entry: | parallel |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aligned, side-by-side |
| Synonyms: | alongside, coextending, coextensive, coordinate, equidistant, extending equally, in the same direction, lateral, laterally, never meeting, running alongside |
| Antonyms: | crooked, separate, skewed, zigzag |
| Main Entry: | side by side |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, adverb |
| Definition: | next to each other |
| Synonyms: | abreast, alongside, beside, cheek by jowl, cheek to cheek, juxtaposing, parallel, shoulder to shoulder, side-by-side |
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