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adjoiningadjective having a border in commonthe cows had broken through the fence and were grazing in the adjoining field abutting, adjacent, bordering, conterminous, contiguous, flanking, flush, fringing, joining, juxtaposed, neighboring, skirting, touching, verging approximate, close, closest, immediate, near, nearby, nearest, next-door, nighattached, communicating, connected, connecting, interconnecting, joined, linked, unitedbounding, circumjacent, embracing, encircling, enclosing(also inclosing), fencing, rimming, surroundingmarginal, peripheral, tangent, tangentialambient, encompassing nonadjacent, noncontiguous apart, detached, disconnected, discrete, free-standing, isolate, isolated, removed, separate, single, unattached, unconnected, unlinkedaway, distant, far, faraway, far-off, farthest, remotediscontinuous, noncontinuousbroken up, disjoined, dissevered, dissociated, disunited, divided, divorced, parted, ramified, resolved, severed, split, sundered, uncoupled, unyoked to be adjacent tothe bedroom of their apartment adjoins their neighbor's living room abutting, bordering (on), butting (on or against), flanking, fringing, joining, marching (with), neighboring, skirting, touching, verging (on) attaching (to), communicating (with), connecting (with), linking (with)bounding, embracing, encircling, enclosing(also inclosing), fencing, lining, margining, rimming, surroundingcontacting, converging, meeting to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increaseafter the dictionary writer's talk, the principal adjoined a few remarks about her own love of words adding, annexing, appending, subjoining, tacking (on) affixing, attaching, fastening, fixing, grafting, hitching, tagging, tying(or tieing)infusing, injecting, inserting, interfusing, introducingaggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, beefing (up), boosting, compounding, enlarging, escalating, expanding, extending, increasing, multiplying, raising, swelling (up)elongating, lengthening, prolonging, protractingenhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifyingcomplementing, supplementing, supplyingenforcing, reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningmaximizing abating, bating, deducting, knocking off, removing, subtracting, taking off detaching, disconnecting, disjoining, separating, unfasteningamputating, cutting, excising, lopping (off), severingcontracting, decreasing, diminishing, lessening, lowering, reducingabbreviating, abridging, curtailing, shorteningcompressing, condensing, constricting, cutting back, retrenching adj.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 in 1577 |