Synonyms of dovetailing

dovetailing

verb

present participle of dovetail

as in coinciding

to be in agreement on every point

the Union and the Confederate accounts of the battle don't dovetail at all

Synonyms & Similar Words

• coinciding
• corresponding
• conforming
• fitting
• agreeing
• consisting
• according
• harmonizing
• rhyming
• squaring
• checking
• aligning
• sorting
• answering
• cohering
• going
• tallying
• matching
• jibing
• comporting
• paralleling
• chording
• falling in with
• equaling
• registering
• lining up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• differing (from)
• disagreeing (with)
• contradicting
• disputing
• conflicting
• nullifying
• negating
• clashing
• jarring
• gainsaying

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dovetailing

Others including Messika, Repossi and Graff, dovetailing their high jewelry with a broader selection of their offerings. — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 20 Feb. 2026

The clever live production finds cool cat bassist Rick Savage thrumming out a solo before dovetailing into the song’s familiar opening riff, which gives Elliott enough time to dash to the top level of the theater to belt the evocative anthem. — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026

The vision is primed to keep expanding, dovetailing with a number of upcoming events. — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2026

Season 1 had an ideal structure in the trio of obstacles engineered by Alexandre, dovetailing with Camille and Issei’s dawning acceptance of each other as allies instead of enemies. — Alison Herman, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026

Even as wedding registries shift and honeymoon funds replace fine china, antique case pieces and modern iterations of china cabinets are on the rise again—dovetailing with modern maximalism’s emphasis on playing up your home’s personality and the design world’s recent sweet spot for nostalgia. — Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 16 Jan. 2026

But after a beaming Wilkins stood beside Patel at his swearing-in ceremony in February, that number skyrocketed to 105,300 streams, dovetailing to 17,400 and 10,600 streams in the following two weeks. — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2025

An inch of rain or more fell in communities across the capital region with Thursday’s wet and windy storm, but the weekend’s dovetailing systems should pack a weaker punch, said Kate Forrest, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Sacramento. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 14 Nov. 2025

During a familiarly frenetic summer of incomings and outgoings (hat tip Strasbourg) at Chelsea, new recruit Joao Pedro has made a dream start to life in West London, already dovetailing well with compatriot and teenage star Estevao. — Jack Bantock, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025