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 building, the adjoining public library and the public park next door total 4.13 acres; Hillwood’s HQ, by contrast, covers 5.8. —

Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Feb. 2025 The fantasy is showing up at the airport with your 99-year-old grandfather—cane in one hand and unconcealed, carry-on katana in the other—and accompanying him in an adjoining seat, like Uma Thurman and her sword in Kill Bill: Vol. 1. —

Kevin Chroust, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2025 The exhibition was held in three elegant high-ceilinged adjoining rooms on the second floor of a sixteenth-century palazzo in the center of Genoa. —

Michael Bracewell, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025 The county has already done so with the adjoining Old Sheriff’s Residence which received renovations to the first floor and is now rented out as a gift shop. —

Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for adjoining