Adjacent and Connected

Adjacent

Adjacent adjective - Having a border in common.
Usage example: their house is adjacent to a wooded park

Connected and adjacent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Connected" instead an adjective "Adjacent".

Nearby Words: adjacency, adjacently

Connected

Connected adjective - Joined or linked together.

Adjacent and connected are semantically related. You can use "Adjacent" instead an adjective "Connected".

Both words in one sentence

  • Convenient Questing Subverted by the MMORPG City of Heroes — in many cases low-level zones are directly adjacent and connected to much higher-level zones; likewise, both train lines allow characters to go almost anywhere regardless of whether they can survive there.
  • Video Game / Hunt the Wumpus The game gives you your room number, the numbers of the three rooms connected to yours, and warns you if Super Bats, Bottomless Pits, or the Wumpus are in an adjacent room.
  • Video Game / God of War Series Basically, when you activate a switch, a green filter appears on the screen, the camera zooms away and stairways that are only adjacent by perspective become connected for real.
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