Word Meanings - ADJOINING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room. "The adjoining fane." Dryden. Upon the hills adjoining to the city. Shak. Syn. -- Adjacent; contiguous; near; neighboring; abutting; bordering. See Adjacent.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADJOINING)

• Conterminous
• Commensurate
• adjoining
• contiguous
• abutting

Related words: (words related to ADJOINING)

• ABUTTAL
  The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland. Spelman.
• CONTERMINOUS
  Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous. This conformed so many of them as were conterminous to the colonies and garrisons, to the Roman laws. Sir M. Hale.
• CONTIGUOUS
  In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining. The two halves of the paper did not appear fully divided . . . but seemed contiguous at one of their angles. Sir I. Newton. Sees no contiguous palace rear its head.
• ADJOINANT
  Contiguous. Carew.
• ADJOINT
  An adjunct; a helper.
• ABUTTER
  One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.
• COMMENSURATENESS
  The state or quality of being commensurate. Foster.
• COMMENSURATE
  1. To reduce to a common measure. Sir T. Browne. 2. To proportionate; to adjust. T. Puller
• COMMENSURATELY
  1. In a commensurate manner; so as to be equal or proportionate; adequately. 2. With equal measure or extent. Goodwin.
• ADJOINING
  Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room. "The adjoining fane." Dryden. Upon the hills adjoining to the city. Shak. Syn. -- Adjacent; contiguous; near; neighboring; abutting; bordering. See Adjacent.
• ADJOIN
  To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append. Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note. Watts.
• INCONTIGUOUS
  Not contiguous; not adjoining or in contact; separate. Boyle. -- In`con*tig"u*ous*ly, adv.
• INCOMMENSURATE
  1. Not commensurate; not admitting of a common measure; incommensurable. 2. Not of equal of sufficient measure or extent; not adequate; as, our means are incommensurate to our wants. Syn. -- Inadequate; insufficient; disproportionate.