Synonyms of associating

associating

verb

present participle of associate

1

as in traveling

to come or be together as friends

a socially ambitious couple who joined the country club in order to associate with the right sort of people

Synonyms & Similar Words

• traveling
• connecting
• mixing
• collaborating
• relating
• joining
• running
• mingling
• bonding
• befriending
• consorting
• cooperating
• sorting
• fraternizing
• chumming
• linking
• hobnobbing
• hanging (around or out)
• allying
• attaching
• affiliating
• taking up with
• rubbing elbows (with)
• rubbing shoulders (with)
• grouping
• companying
• tying
• keeping company (with)
• hooking up
• messing around
• being friends with
• falling in with
• teaming
• coupling
• interrelating
• palling (around)
• socializing
• rallying
• friending
• consociating
• colluding
• conjoining
• clubbing
• ganging
• confederating
• siding
• banding
• getting along
• knotting
• getting on
• leaguing
• wedding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• avoiding
• shunning
• snubbing
• alienating
• estranging
• dispersing
• splitting
• splitting (up)
• dissociating
• disbanding
• cold-shouldering
• severing
• breaking up
• divorcing
• sundering
• disjoining
• disuniting

2

as in identifying

to think of (something) in combination

she still associates Memorial Day with her long-ago fiancé, who died in Vietnam

Synonyms & Similar Words

• identifying
• correlating
• connecting
• linking
• comparing
• equating
• relating
• grouping
• likening
• tying (together)
• joining
• lumping (together)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• separating
• distinguishing
• contrasting
• differentiating
• discriminating
• setting off

3

as in combining

to come together to form a single unit

the elements hydrogen and oxygen associate to form molecules of water

Synonyms & Similar Words

• combining
• connecting
• fusing
• uniting
• joining
• coupling
• unifying
• marrying
• coalescing
• conjoining
• conjugating
• linking (up)
• allying
• interfusing
• yoking
• mating
• chaining
• assembling
• compounding
• clustering
• splicing
• reuniting
• congregating
• reconnecting
• confederating
• rejoining
• hooking
• convening
• recombining
• hitching
• meeting
• gathering
• constellating
• leaguing
• reunifying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• separating
• splitting
• severing
• dividing
• parting
• isolating
• resolving
• sectioning
• dissociating
• detaching
• disconnecting
• breaking up
• divorcing
• unlinking
• fractionating
• uncoupling
• dispersing
• sundering
• dissevering
• scattering
• disjoining
• disbanding
• disuniting
• unyoking
• disaffiliating
• disjointing

4

as in cooperating

to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members

nations deciding to associate in order to remove trade barriers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cooperating
• uniting
• collaborating
• merging
• allying
• organizing
• federating
• coalescing
• joining
• clubbing
• consolidating
• conjoining
• cohering
• confederating
• combining
• incorporating
• linking
• banding (together)
• pulling together
• converging
• grouping
• affiliating
• amalgamating
• closing ranks
• leaguing
• tying
• teaming (up)
• unionizing
• ganging up
• caballing
• hanging together
• knotting
• conglomerating
• wedding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• separating
• splitting
• segregating
• disbanding
• dissolving
• detaching
• breaking up
• severing
• parting
• disengaging
• divorcing
• alienating
• falling out
• disuniting
• sundering
• estranging

5

as in mixing

to take part in social activities

you should try to associate with people your own age

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mixing
• mingling
• socializing
• going out
• partying
• reveling
• fraternizing
• rubbing elbows
• hobnobbing
• stepping out
• circulating
• carousing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• avoiding
• shunning
• eschewing
• slighting
• snubbing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of associating

The rest of the party is mostly silent, forever associating itself with a movement that’s intent on destroying the centrist parts of the Democratic Party. — Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2026

Meanwhile, the connection between hair shedding and ferritin is well documented, with studies associating low ferritin levels with telogen effluvium, a form of temporary hair loss. — Fiorella Valdesolo, Allure, 15 July 2026

Some jokes, including a riff on the history of the Wright Brothers, feel vaguely Dada, as if Marino and Wain had spent a long, happy stretch of aimless days drinking coffee and free-associating. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 July 2026

People online have speculated that Meghan wants to be filmed visiting Diana’s grave, possibly for a future documentary or to be seen associating her personal brand with her husband’s beloved mother, who was killed in a car crash in 1997. — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 9 July 2026

And somewhere in the mix is a new technology facility that many are associating with a data center. — John Ramos, CBS News, 30 June 2026

Campbell argues that Latchford’s donations helped bolster his credibility as a scholar by associating his name with top institutions. — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 17 June 2026

Hoffman has apologized for associating with Epstein. — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 5 June 2026

According to recent polling by the firm Meganálisis, Rodríguez continues to face deeply negative approval ratings, with many Venezuelans still associating the interim government with corruption, repression and economic collapse linked to the final years of Chavismo. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 29 May 2026