adjacent

/əˈdʒeɪsnt/ (bre, ipa) · /əˈdʒeɪsnt/ (ame, ipa) · /ə-ˈjā-sᵊnt/ (ame, mw)

adjacent — 形容詞

1. sharing a wall, edge, or border with something else, or sitting so close to it t

1.形容詞C2
釋義

鄰近的；緊鄰

位置緊靠或共用邊界的

sharing a wall, edge, or border with something else, or sitting so close to it that nothing else stands in between.

例句

Sven rented the small office adjacent to the coffee shop on Maple Street.

Sven 在楓樹街上租了一間緊鄰咖啡店的小辦公室。

adjacent to + noun (location)

Her bedroom was adjacent to the noisy kitchen, so she could hear every dish clatter.

她的臥室就緊鄰吵雜的廚房，每一聲碗盤碰撞她都聽得到。

adjacent to + noun showing direct contact

同義詞
  • neighbouring

    near or beside, but does not require shared border

  • adjoining

    stronger than 'adjacent' — implies a shared wall or door

  • abutting

    very formal, often legal; bodies physically touching at the edge

  • next-door

    informal, used mainly for houses or rooms

反義詞

文法句型

adjacent to + noun

用法筆記

Most often appears with the preposition 'to' when naming what something sits beside. More formal than 'next to' and 'beside' — common in legal, geographic, and architectural writing.

常見錯誤

❌My house is adjacent with the park.
✅My house is adjacent to the park.
💡the fixed preposition is 'to', not 'with' or 'from'.
❌The two cities are adjacent each other.
✅The two cities are adjacent to each other.
💡'adjacent' always needs 'to' before the second noun.

2. joined to another word with a hyphen to mean that someone or something is not re

2.形容詞C2
釋義

近似；類似

雖非本身但風格相近的

joined to another word with a hyphen to mean that someone or something is not really the named thing, but sits close to it in style, group, or feel.

例句

Anaya calls her music pop-adjacent because it borrows from pop without truly belonging to that genre.

Anaya 把自己的音樂稱為近似流行的風格，因為它借用流行元素卻不完全屬於那個類型。

compound: [noun]-adjacent

Sven is celebrity-adjacent — his sister married a famous actor, but he himself avoids the spotlight.

Sven 算是沾邊名人圈——他姊姊嫁給了一位知名演員，但他自己迴避鎂光燈。

humorous compound for being near a status group

同義詞
  • -like

    suffix with similar effect ('pop-like'), but less ironic

  • -ish

    casual suffix ('pop-ish') suggesting rough resemblance

  • quasi-

    formal prefix ('quasi-pop') for things only resembling the real thing

文法句型

[noun]-adjacent

用法筆記

Distinguish from sense 1: this sense never takes 'to'. It only appears as the second half of a hyphenated compound (X-adjacent). Common in modern informal writing about culture, identity, and work.

常見錯誤

❌My work is adjacent to tech.' (when meaning loosely related)
✅My work is tech-adjacent.
💡the compound form carries the 'similar but not the real thing' meaning; the 'adjacent to' form is purely about physical position.
❌Her style is pop adjacent.
✅Her style is pop-adjacent.
💡the hyphen is required to form the compound.