- abutting, adjacent, adjoining, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring - having a common boundary or edge; touching; "abutting lots"; "adjoining rooms"; "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"
Antonym: unconnected (indirect, via connected)
- border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on - lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland"
--1 is one way to touch, adjoin, meet, contact
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun abutment1, noun abutter1
Something ----s something