Subsequent vs Contiguous - What's the difference?
subsequent | contiguous |
Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely.
Following in order of place; succeeding.
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 adjectives the difference between subsequent and contiguous
is that subsequent is following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely while contiguous is connected; touching; abutting.subsequent
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Adjective
(-)- Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.
Derived terms
* subsequentlycontiguous
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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.
