adjoining

adjective

ad·join·ing ə-ˈjȯi-niŋ

Synonyms of adjoining next

: touching or bounding at a point or line

Choose the Right Synonym for adjoining

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.

a house with an adjacent garage

adjoining definitely implies meeting and touching at some point or line.

had adjoining rooms at the hotel

contiguous implies having contact on all or most of one side.

offices in all 48 contiguous states

juxtaposed means placed side by side especially so as to permit comparison and contrast.

a skyscraper juxtaposed to a church

Examples of adjoining in a Sentence

the cows had broken through the fence and were grazing in the adjoining field

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The Library is located on the 100 block of East Scranton Avenue with an adjoining building housing the Lake Bluff History Museum. —

Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025 The vote was held open as Johnson huddled on the floor and in adjoining rooms with the holdouts. —

Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025 Some are confined to refugee camps in adjoining countries like Chad. —

Karl Vick, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025 The moratorium, issued Thursday, protects homeowners living within the perimeter of the fire and in adjoining ZIP codes from losing their policies for one year, starting from when Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency on Wednesday. —

Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for adjoining