Crooked vs Adjacent - What's the difference?
crooked | adjacent |
(crook)
Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.
Set at an angle; not vertical or square.
(figuratively) Dishonest or illegal; corrupt.
Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
Just before, after, or facing.
Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.
* 1980 , Faber Birren, The textile colorist
* 2011 , Mark Zegarelli, ACT Math For Dummies (page 194)
As adjectives the difference between crooked and adjacent
is that crooked is not straight; having one or more bends or angles while adjacent is lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.As a verb crooked
is (crook).As a noun adjacent is
something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.As a preposition adjacent is
(us) next to; adjacent to; beside.crooked
English
Etymology 1
From crook, equivalent to .Verb
(head)Etymology 2
From (etyl) croked, crokid, past participle of . More at (l).Adjective
(en adjective)- We walked up the crooked path to the top of the hill.
- That picture is crooked - could you straighten it up for me?
- He was trying to interest me in another one of his crooked deals.
adjacent
English
Adjective
(-)- Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.
- The picture is on the adjacent page .
Synonyms
* (lying next to) abutting, adjoining, contiguous, juxtaposed, nearAntonyms
* (lying next to) apart, distant, nonadjacentNoun
(en noun)- Again, the key colors have twice the area of the adjacents .
- Picking out the opposite, the adjacent , and the hypotenuse
