adjoining

ad·join·ing

adj

Definition of ADJOINING

: touching or bounding at a point or line

Examples of ADJOINING

1. <the cows had broken through the fence and were grazing in the adjoining field>

First Known Use of ADJOINING

15th century

Related to ADJOINING

Synonyms: abutting, adjacent, bordering, conterminous, contiguous, flanking, flush, fringing, joining, juxtaposed, neighboring, skirting, touching, verging

Antonyms: nonadjacent, noncontiguous

Related Words: approximate, close, closest, immediate, near, nearby, nearest, next-door, nigh; attached, communicating, connected, connecting, interconnecting, joined, linked, united; bounding, circumjacent, embracing, encircling, enclosing (also inclosing), fencing, rimming, surrounding; marginal, peripheral, tangent, tangential; ambient, encompassing

Near Antonyms: apart, detached, disconnected, discrete, free-standing, isolate, isolated, removed, separate, single, unattached, unconnected, unlinked; away, distant, far, faraway, far-off, farthest, remote; discontinuous, noncontinuous; broken up, disjoined, dissevered, dissociated, disunited, divided, divorced, parted, ramified, resolved, severed, split, sundered, uncoupled, unyoked

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