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

His sensitive book-hound son Emiliano (Lorenzo Urso) is Giuliano’s best friend, but Sebastiano forbids him from associating with the Arca family. — Jay Weissberg, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026

When snacks aren't available, children will stop associating your bag with snacks and will eventually no longer expect them. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 6 Aug. 2026

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