Synonyms of assimilated

assimilated

verb

past tense of assimilate

1

as in compared

to describe as similar

assimilated the 19th-century American captains of industry and commerce to the medieval barons who exorbitantly taxed shipping along the Rhine

Synonyms & Similar Words

• compared
• equated
• linked
• connected
• likened
• referred
• bracketed
• analogized
• related
• associated
• coupled
• alluded
• matched
• paralleled
• equaled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• contrasted

2

as in understood

to have a clear idea of

still trying to assimilate the doctor's diagnosis of my heart condition

Synonyms & Similar Words

• understood
• knew
• deciphered
• recognized
• comprehended
• appreciated
• grasped
• saw
• realized
• discerned
• got
• sensed
• perceived
• conceived
• apprehended
• decoded
• seized
• made
• registered
• intuited
• caught on (to)
• tumbled (to)
• beheld
• absorbed
• dug
• made out
• picked up on
• grokked
• twigged
• digested
• caught
• savvied
• cognized
• compassed
• cottoned (to or on to)
• penetrated
• took in
• fathomed
• pierced

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• missed
• misunderstood
• misinterpreted
• misconstrued
• misread
• misconceived
• mistook
• misapprehended
• misperceived

3

as in integrated

to make a part of a body or system

social workers will need time to assimilate the new arrivals into the community

Synonyms & Similar Words

• integrated
• incorporated
• absorbed
• embodied
• co-opted
• merged
• combined
• amalgamated
• intermingled
• commingled
• blended
• mingled
• fused
• accustomed
• acculturated
• conditioned
• habituated
• naturalized
• enculturated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of assimilated

The trio has assimilated perfectly, down to their graying wigs. — Susan-Elizabeth Littlefield, CBS News, 13 July 2026

Many of these children not only survived, but learned the skills and lifeways of their captors, often becoming fully assimilated into the cultures that had once seemed utterly foreign. — Literary Hub, 8 July 2026

Chef Kevin Liao also distinguishes the kitchen with his illuminating Toisanese specialties, a regional subgenre of Cantonese cuisine either rarely seen in Los Angeles or so deeply assimilated into more generalized Cantonese menus that its distinctions are hard to parse. — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026

Those students will be assimilated into their home campuses. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2026

Another appearance in print occurs in 1880, in the memoirs of a Canadian missionary called Sheldon Jackson—also a prominent founder of schools where Native children were forcibly assimilated. — Glenn Adamson, Artforum, 2 May 2026

The growth of colonial Australian society came at the expense of the Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander peoples, who were often dispossessed of their land, exposed to foreign diseases, and either pushed into marginal areas or forcibly assimilated into European culture. — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026

His steely aide-de-camp, Mauricio Corredor (also based on a historical figure), is of Rarámuri heritage but has assimilated into Mexican culture. — Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026

She was assimilated into the suburban New England life in America. — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025