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

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

Gombrowicz never really ‘assimilated’ to life in Argentina, partly due to the unique and unprecedented circumstances that brought him there in the first place, but also because of his naturally irreverent and at times even childish attitude towards literary establishment. — Literary Hub, 11 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

New York was built by immigrants such as Italians, Irish and lately, Hispanics, many of whom assimilated into the fabric of the city and eventually became woven into the culture. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025