next — OAT · Shobdo

adjective

1 we shall turn to this issue in the next chapter | the first residents move in next week:

following, succeeding, to come, upcoming.

▷antonyms previous, preceding.

2 a brick wall separated the yard of the next house from ours:

neighboring, adjacent, adjoining, next-door, bordering, abutting;

contiguous, connected, connecting, attached;

closest, nearest, proximate.

□ next of kin

in the case of childless couples, your next of kin are your parents:

closest relative, closest relation, nearest blood relation/relative, closest family member.

□ the next world (also the next life)

instead of offering salvation in the next world, it offers health and longevity in this one |

she passed into the next life a week later:

the hereafter, life after death, the afterlife, the life to come, the afterworld, the beyond;

immortality, eternity, heaven, paradise.

adverb

people argued about where to go next:

then, after this/that, following that/this, after, afterwards, after that time, later, at a later time, subsequently, at a subsequent time;

formal thereafter, thereupon.

▷antonyms before.

□ next to

she sat down next to a window:

beside, next door to, alongside, by/at the side of, abreast of, by, adjacent to, cheek by jowl with, side by side with;

close to, near, nearest to, neighboring, adjoining, abutting;

connected to, connecting with, contiguous with, attached to.

▷antonyms away from.

□ next to nothing

the market for ponies is poor and they fetch next to nothing |

the museum says next to nothing about the region's unique culture and history:

very small sum, pittance, trifle, flea-bite, trifling sum, drop in the ocean, insignificant sum, derisory sum, paltry sum;

small change, pennies;

hardly anything, very little, the bare minimum;

informal peanuts, chicken feed, piddling amount, shoestring;

North American, informal chump change;

South African, informal tickey.