adjacent

Adjective

• near or close to but not necessarily touching
  • lands adjacent to the mountains
    
  • New York and adjacent cities
    

• having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"
  • Rhode Island has two bordering states
    
  • the side of Germany conterminous with France
    
  • Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho
    
  • neighboring cities
    

• nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space
  • had adjacent rooms
    
  • in the next room
    
  • the person sitting next to me
    
  • our rooms were side by side
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  conterminous , contiguous , neighboring(a) , next , side by side(p)