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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(literary, archaic) Lying or located in the area arround something..
[S]ome have used to get on the top of the higheſt Steeple, vvhere one may vievv with advantage, all the Countrey circumjacent, and the ſite of the City, vvith the advenues and approaches about it; and ſo take a Landskip of it.
[H]e had establiſhed his fame and dominion over the circumjacent tribes.
[W]hile the table was […] the lap of luxury […] the circumjacent region of the sitting-room was of a comparatively pastureless and shifty character: […]
He had taken no trouble to indicate it to his fellow citizens, purveyors and consumers, in his own and the circumjacent commonwealths, of comic matter in large lettering, diurnally “set up,” printed, published, folded and delivered, at the expense of his presumptuous emulation of the snail.
Use circumjacent when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Circumjacent means (literary, archaic) Lying or located in the area arround something..
Common synonyms include circumambient, surrounding.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[S]ome have used to get on the top of the higheſt Steeple, vvhere one may vievv with advantage, all the Countrey circumjacent, and the ſite of the City, vvith the advenues and approaches about it; and ſo take a Landskip of it.
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