| free, | inadhesive, | loose, | separable. |
Preposition:
The stiff, wet clay, adhesive to the foot, impeded progress.
ADJACENT.
Synonyms:
| abutting, | bordering, | contiguous, | neighboring, |
| adjoining, | close, | coterminous, | next, |
| attached, | conterminous, | near, | nigh. |
| beside, |
Adjacent farms may not be connected; if adjoining, they meet at the boundary-line. Conterminous would imply that their dimensions were exactly equal on the side where they adjoin. Contiguous may be used for either adjacent or adjoining. Abutting refers rather to the end of one building or estate than to the neighborhood of another. Buildings may be adjacent or adjoining that are not attached. Near is a relative word, places being called near upon the railroad which would elsewhere be deemed remote. Neighboring always implies such proximity that the inhabitants[23] may be neighbors. Next views some object as the nearest of several or many; next neighbor implies a neighborhood.
Antonyms:
| detached, | disconnected, | disjoined, | distant, | remote, | separate. |