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
Both words in one sentence
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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.
Source: Convenient Questing -
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.
Source: Video Game / Hunt the Wumpus -
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.
Source: Video Game / God of War Series
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