Hyphenation of ADJACENT

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word ADJACENT? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

AD-JA-CENT

Definitions of ADJACENT:

1.	Nearest in space or position Immediately adjoining without intervening space Had adjacent rooms In the next room The person sitting next to me Our rooms were side by side
2.	Having a common boundary or edge Abutting Touching Rhode Island has two bordering states Massachusetts and Conncecticut The side of Germany conterminous with France Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho Neighboring cities
3.	Near or close to but not necessarily touching Lands adjacent to the mountains New York and adjacent cities

Synonyms of ADJACENT:

adj	next, side by side, close
adj	abutting, adjoining, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring, connected
adj	near, close

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