NEXT TO: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for NEXT TO?

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Associations of "Next to" (30 Words)

abut	Touch or lean on. A park abutting on an area of waste land.
accompanying	Following or accompanying as a consequence. The accompanying documentation.
adjacent	Next to or adjoining something else. Adjacent rooms.
after	At a later or future time afterwards. Two hours after that.
afterthought	Something that is thought of or added later. The garage was an afterthought.
afterward	Happening at a time subsequent to a reference time. It didn t happen until afterward.
afterwards	Happening at a time subsequent to a reference time. The offender was arrested shortly afterwards.
alongside	Side by side.
contiguous	Very close or connected in space or time. The Southern Ocean is contiguous with the Atlantic.
ensuing	Following immediately and as a result of what went before. She lost track of one of her children during the ensuing chaos.
following	Immediately following in time or order. Tried to outrun the following footsteps.
future	A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future. His future wife.
hereafter	After death. This court is in no way prejudging any such defence which may hereafter be raised.
incoming	(of a communication) being received rather than sent. Keep an account of your incomings and outgoings.
later	At a time in the near future; soon or afterwards. I ll see you later.
lateral	Involving lateral thinking. The plant takes up water through its lateral roots.
laterally	In a way that involves lateral thinking. Use slide steps to move laterally.
medial	(of a speech sound) in the middle of a word. A medial consonant.
posterior	Coming after in time or order; later. The posterior part of the gut.
posterity	All future generations of people. The victims names are recorded for posterity.
preliminary	A preliminary round in a sporting competition. A preliminary draft.
purlieu	A tract on the border of a forest, especially one earlier included in it and still partly subject to forest laws. The photogenic purlieus of Cambridge.
sequent	In regular succession without gaps. Some of the inferences are not sequent on the premises.
shortly	In a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner. To put it shortly.
subsequence	Something that follows something else. An affair which appeared in due subsequence in the newspapers.
subsequent	Following in time or order. The theory was developed subsequent to the earthquake of 1906.
subsequently	Happening at a time subsequent to a reference time. The work was accepted for inclusion in the Paris Salon of 1880 and was subsequently sold to an important collector.
successively	In proper order or sequence. Three letters of successively decreasing length.
superimpose	Place or lay (one thing) over another, typically so that both are still evident. Can you superimpose the two images.
then	After that; next; afterwards. I m paid a generous salary and then there s the money I ve made at the races.