Contiguous vs Contiguously - What's the difference?
contiguous | contiguously |
connected; touching; abutting
adjacent; neighbouring/neighboring
* 1730–1774 , , Introductory to Switzerland
* 1835 , William Scoresby, Memorials of the Sea (page 59)
connecting without a break
* 1886 , Frank Hamilton Cushing, A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth :
As an adjective contiguous
is connected; touching; abutting.As an adverb contiguously is
in a contiguous manner.contiguous
English
Adjective
(-)- 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;
- the usual quietness of the day, with us, was broken in upon by the shout of success from the pursuing boats, followed by vehement respondings from the contiguous ship.
- The forty-eight contiguous states.
- Supposing three such houses to be contiguous to a central one, each separated from the latter by a straight wall.