Synonyms of intertwining

intertwining

verb

present participle of intertwine

1

as in weaving

to cause to twine about one another

intertwined two different colors of yarn

Synonyms & Similar Words

• weaving
• twisting
• entwining
• mixing
• braiding
• plying
• implicating
• interlacing
• interweaving
• writhing
• blending
• wreathing
• intertwisting
• enlacing
• lacing
• inweaving
• plaiting
• linking
• fusing
• platting
• joining
• pleaching

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unwinding
• disentangling
• uncoiling
• untangling
• untwining

2

as in knotting

to twist together into a usually confused mass

intertwining yarn is usually a bad idea, because you'll never get it all sorted out again

Synonyms & Similar Words

• knotting
• tangling
• snarling
• weaving
• jumbling
• entangling
• interlacing
• interweaving
• intertwisting
• braiding
• twining
• entwining
• scrambling
• winding
• plaiting
• scrabbling
• writhing
• entwisting
• enlacing
• inweaving
• wreathing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disentangling
• untwisting
• untangling
• unraveling
• unknotting
• untwining
• unsnarling
• unscrambling
• unweaving

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of intertwining

When the work environment shifts in ways that make objective judgment harder to offer, that intertwining starts to come apart. — Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2026

The Canadian producer/musician creates songs that feel like they’re haunted by their own ghosts, laced with intertwining echoes, tiny sonic fractures, and a palpable sense of place. — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2026

Movies built from intertwining stories can be hard to pull off. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 26 June 2026

Directed by Alice Winocour, the film follows an American filmmaker working during Paris Fashion Week who receives a life-altering breast cancer diagnosis, intertwining her story with those of a South Sudanese model and a makeup artist navigating their own pressures within the industry. — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 17 June 2026

Boston is a city of intertwining neighborhoods, where great restaurants aren’t exclusively the domain of tasting menus and white tablecloths. — Tanya Edwards, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 June 2026

These two intertwining stories drive home the impact of that time and its reverberations through the decades in a page-turning, illuminating novel. — Caroline Killilea, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026

The scents come in glass bottles with a retro appeal and details winking to the house’s couture tradition, such as the metal logo intertwining with a safety pin and a vintage-looking pear pump sprayer adorned with the fabrics of the ateliers. — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 20 May 2026

But mostly, the intertwining threads just sit there, never coming together in any satisfying way or holding up as their own story within the story, despite how hard the writers work at showing that reality can inspire fiction but fiction can also bounce back to influence reality. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026