contiguous

Connected; touching; abutting.figurativelynot-comparablesometimes

• It was in this haphazard way that Mr Carrados was fated to be drawn into the curious Shakespeare case—a gossipy letter from an American friend coupled with the Stratford-on-Avon outrage, and the contiguous circumstance that his secretary's

Adjacent; neighboring.not-comparable

• 1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed;

Connecting without a break.not-comparable

• the forty-eight contiguous states