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Nearest in place; having no similar object intervening. Chaucer. Her princely guest Was next her side; in order sat the rest. Dryden. Fear followed me so hard, that I fled the next way. Bunyan.

Not extended.

Not capable of being extended; not elastic; as, inextensible fibers.

Want of extension; unextended state.

Incapable of extermination. Rush.

Not quenched; not extinct.

Inextinguishable. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

Not capable of being extinguished; extinguishable; unquenchable; as, inextinguishable flame, light, thirst, desire, feuds. "Inextinguishable rage." Milton.

So as not to be extinguished; in an inextinguishable manner.

Not capable of being extirpated or rooted out; ineradicable.

extricated, untied, or disentangled; hopelessly intricate, confused, or obscure; as, an inextricable knot or difficulty; inextricable confusion. Lost in the wild, inextricable maze. Blackmore.

The state of being inextricable.

In an inextricable manner.

Not extensile; incapable of being stretched.

Inextinguishable. -- Un`ex*tin"guish*a*bly, adv.

Not extricable; inextricable. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.

To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin. When one man's land adjoins to another's. Blackstone.

Next; later in time; subsequent; succeeding; as, an after period of life. Marshall.

One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.