2. situation, circumstances, conditions, environment, milieu; qualifying factors, state of affairs, facts,
contiguity, n. 1. adjacency, adjacence, juxtaposition, contiguousness, Obs.
attingency or
attingence, Obs.
attiguousness; nearness, closeness, proximity, proximateness, proximation, approximation, propinquity, vicinage.
2. contact, abuttal, abutment; union, conjunction, intersection; meeting, joining, touching, abutting; connecting, conjoining.
3. continuum, continuous or
unbroken mass or
stretch, continuous or
unbroken extent, expanse.
contiguous, adj. 1. touching, meeting, joining, conjoining, connecting, contactual, abutting, tangential, tangent, Obs.
attingent, Obs.
attiguous; bordering, skirting, edging, juxtapositional, juxtaposed, proximate, in close proximity, next to, Inf. right next to, Inf. next door to.
2. adjacent, near, nearby, close, close by, hand by, nigh, neighboring, converging, vicinal,
continence, n. 1. continency, chastity, celibacy, purity; virginity, virtue, innocence, innocency.
2. temperance, temperateness, moderation, moderateness, avoidance of extremes; restraint, selfrestraint, self-control; refrainment, refraining, forbearance, desistance; abstention, abstinence, nonindulgence, abstemiousness.
3. Puritanism, austerity, self-mortification, self deprivation, fasting; asceticism, self-denial, self-abnegation.
4. teetotalism, nephalism, sobriety, soberness; prohibition, blue-ribbonism; Rechabitism.
continent, n. 1. mainland, main, Latin, terra firma. -adj. 2. chaste, celibate, virgin, virginal; pure, untouched, undefiled; virtuous, innocent, good; pristine, uncorrupted, unsullied, stainless.
3. temperate, moderate, self-restrained, self controlled; refraining, forbearing, desisting; abstemious, abstinent, nonindulgent, dieting, fasting.
4. puritanical, puritan-like, austere, self-mortifying, self-depriving; ascetic, self-denying, self-abnegating.
5. teetotal, sober, not intoxicated or
drunk; prohibi-tionary, U.S.
dry, blue-ribbon.
contingency, n. 1. chance, mere chance, happy chance, fortuity, serendipity, happenstance, luck, fortune; odds, run of luck; uncertainty, fortuitousness, casualness, randomness, haphazardness, arbitrariness, accidentalness.
2. possibility, likelihood, eventuality; event, circumstance, occasion, situation, case, juncture, conjuncture; casualty, accident, emergency, exigency, exigence; predicament, quandary.
3. fluke, chance event, chance occurrence, happening, hap; freak accident, one in a million, twist of fate; bad luck or
fortune, stroke of bad luck or
fortune.
4. incidental, detail, small detail, minor detail, minu-tia, particular, point; aspect, facet, factor; respect, regard.
5. nonessential, unessential, inessential; extra, accessory, appurtenance, supplement; auxiliary, subsidiary, secondary; addition, addendum, appendage.
contingent, adj. 1. conditional, provisional, provisory, stipulatory; dependent on or
upon, depending, depending on, hanging on, hinging on; circumstantial, depending on circumstances; subject to, incident to, incidental to.
2. likely, possible, probable, incident; in the cards, on the books, in the air, in the wind, afloat, astir, afoot.
3. uncertain, indefinite, undetermined, unsettled, unestablished; open, up in the air, touch-and-go, borderline, hanging in the balance, SI.up for grabs; unpredictable, unforeseeable; unaccountable, undeterminable, unascertainable, undivinable.
4. chance, fortuitous, serendipitous, aleatory, Inf.
