| Main Entry: | next |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coming immediately after in space, time, order |
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abutting, adjacent, adjoining, after, alongside, attached, back-to-back, beside, close, closest, coming, consequent, coterminous, ensuing, following, hard by, later, meeting, nearest, neighboring, on the side, proximate, side-by-side, subsequent, succeeding, touching |
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earlier, preceding, previous |
| Main Entry: | after |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | following in position or time |
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afterwards, back, back of, behind, below, ensuing, hind, hindmost, in the rear, later, next, posterior, postliminary, rear, subsequential, subsequently, succeeding, thereafter |
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before |
| Main Entry: | close |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | near, nearby |
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abutting, across the street, adjacent, adjoining, approaching, around the corner, at hand, contiguous, convenient, give or take a little, handy, hard by, immediate, imminent, impending, in spitting distance, in the ball park, near-at-hand, nearest, nearly, neighboring, next, nigh, proximate, under one's nose, warm |
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away, beyond, detached, far, faraway |
| Main Entry: | coming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | approaching, promising |
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about to happen, advancing, almost on one, anticipated, aspiring, at hand, certain, close, converging, deserving, docking, drawing near, due, en route, eventual, expected, fated, foreseen, forthcoming, future, gaining upon, getting near, immediate, imminent, impending, in prospect, in store, in the offing, in the wind, in view, instant, marked, near, nearing, next, nigh, oncoming, ordained, predestined, preparing, progressing, prospective, pursuing, running after, subsequent, to be, up-and-coming |
| Main Entry: | contiguous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adjacent, in contact |
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abutting, adjoining, approximal, beside, bordering, close, contactual, conterminous, juxtaposed, juxtapositional, meeting, near, near-at-hand, nearby, neighboring, next, next door to, next to, touching |
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divided, separated |
| Main Entry: | convenient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nearby |
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accessible, adjacent, adjoining, all around, at elbows, at fingertips, at hand, available, central, close, close at hand, close-by, contiguous, easy to reach, handy, immediate, in neighborhood, next, next door, nigh, on deck, on tap, under one's nose, within reach |
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distant, far, inconvenient, out-of-the-way, unavailable |
| Main Entry: | direct |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | face-to-face; next to |
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contiguous, firsthand, head-on, immediate, lineal, next, personal, primary, prompt, proximate, resultant, succeeding |
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indirect |
| Main Entry: | ensuing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resultant |
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after, coming, coming up, consequent, consequential, following, later, next, next off, posterior, postliminary, subsequent, subsequential |
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antecedent, preceding |
| Main Entry: | following |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happening, being next or after |
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a while later, after a while, afterward, attendant, back, by and by, coming, coming after, coming next, consecutive, consequent, consequential, directly after, ensuing, henceforth, hinder, in pursuit, in search of, in the wake of, later, later on, latter, next, next off, on the scent, posterior, presently, proximate, pursuing, rear, resulting, sequent, sequential, serial, seriate, specified, subsequent, succeeding, successive, supervenient, then, trailing, when |
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first, leading, preceding |
| Main Entry: | future |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | to come; expected |
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approaching, booked, budgeted, close at hand, coming, coming up, destined, down the line, down the pike, down the road, eventual, fated, final, forthcoming, from here in, from here on, from here to eternity, from now on in, imminent, impending, in the cards, in the course of time, in the offing, inevitable, just around the corner, later, likely, looked toward, near, next, planned, prospective, scheduled, subsequent, to be, ulterior, ultimate, unborn, unfolding, up |
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past |