very nearly irritated; swiftly becoming annoyed.
I get irked-adjacent listening people with vocal fry and other tics of speech.
a term coined by comedian, actress, recording artist, designer, and author, Margaret Cho. It means someone who looks kind of asian, and might be somewhat , but not quite there.
Chelsea Handler: asian adjacent?
Margaret Cho: yea like John Gosslin, he looks kind of asian... but he has a white last name, and his green eyes throw me off. He's asian adjacent.
When you live in a nice affluent area, but just one street over you end up in the ghetto.
My house is located in a really nice neighborhood, but just outside that area I am ghetto adjacent to the hood.
A name that is similar in pronunciation or spelling to Emily, but not an exact match
Her name is Emilia, so she's an Emily adjacent.
Having a definite singular gender, whether cis or trans, but also identifying with other pronouns, but on a lesser scale
“Did you hear Jessie is identifying as gender adjacent? She uses she/they pronouns now”
“I’m so happy for them”
When two lesbians move closer to each other without actually moving in with one another in the hopes of not “uhauling.”
Hey, she’s not uhauling with her girlfriend, she’s too evolved for that; it’s more like a uhaul adjacent because she’s moving down the street.
Fuck adjacent - adjective
Definition: Having the potential emotional and reputational (and perhaps even STD) consequences of actual sexual activity without being actually penetrative or generally considered sexual activity.
For instance - “We didn’t have sex or even play ‘just the tip’, but it was fuck adjacent enough that had my man found out, it would have not been a good look.”