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   adjacent

   /əˈdʒeɪs(ə)nt/

   adjective

   • 1. next to or adjoining something else: "adjacent rooms"
   • 2. (of a pair of angles) formed on the same side of a straight line when intersected by another line.
   • 3. next to or very near a specified location: "a Hollywood-adjacent town"
   • ▪ characterized by some aspects of, or similar to, a specified concept: "this film may not technically qualify as horror, but it's certainly horror-adjacent"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Latin adjacent- ‘lying near to’, from adjacere, from ad- ‘to’ + jacere ‘lie down’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. adjacency noun

   Scrabble Points: 18

   • A

     1

   • D

     2

   • J

     8

   • A

     1

   • C

     3

   • E

     1

   • N

     1

   • T

     1

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