INTERWOVEN Synonyms: 72 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

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as in interlaced

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verb

variants also interweaved

past participle of interweave

as in woven

to cause to twine about one another interweaved garlands of red and gold beads and wrapped them around the Christmas tree

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as in inserted

to scatter or set here and there among other things the author artfully interweaves excerpts from soldiers' letters into his history of the Vietnam War

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as in intertwined

to twist together into a usually confused mass in our play the kitten and I managed to interweave the skeins of yarn into a hopeless tangle

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Recent Examples of interwoven

Adjective

Some of those effects have to do with domestic commerce, and some are a result of the interwoven nature of global trade, where raw materials from one place are shipped somewhere they are manufactured into specific items that are then transported to consumers. —

Vidya Mani, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2026 Eight episodes is a specific kind of beast, especially with intricate, interwoven narratives. —

Kennedy French, Variety, 4 Mar. 2026 Drawn from his own experiences during the siege of the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Syria, Abdallah Al-Khatib's debut film follows five interwoven stories in a city under fire. —

Teresa Xie, NPR, 20 Feb. 2026 In Fischer’s telling, the creative and business sides are interwoven and inseparable from each other and from the personal relationships — their friendships and rivalries with each other but also their relationships with those who worked for them or loved them. —

Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026 The fact that Gen Alpha and Gen Z are using video game speak to describe their real-life experiences shows just how interwoven their real world has become with the digital one, Aleksic says. —

Charles Trepany, USA Today, 17 Feb. 2026 The protagonist, Frannie’s, story begins in a plantation in Jamaica, the brutality of which is chillingly evoked, but by moving much of the novel’s action to London, Sara Collins helps show just how tightly interwoven Black Caribbean history is with the history of the UK. —

Literary Hub, 11 Feb. 2026 Subsequent study, however, revealed it was composed of interwoven tubes, rather than the block-like cells that make up plant tissue. —

Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 5 Feb. 2026 What makes this gray area tricky is that authorship and AI assistance are interwoven, and programs allow for degrees of artistic outsourcing. —

Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 28 Jan. 2026

Verb

Sisters in Yellow is her first novel that is truly plot driven, dipping into the noir genre, but it’s still interwoven with the complex internal life of her characters. —

Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026 Grace, who plays Liborio’s confidant and love interest Aireen, was drawn to the movie’s bold and stylistic storytelling, where a traditional immigrant narrative is interwoven with fantastical visual elements. —

Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 17 Mar. 2026 Hollywood traffic is interwoven with 101 on- and off-ramp gridlock. —

Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026 Those decisions are generating heated debates over loyalty — an issue interwoven with money, values and politics on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. —

ABC News, 10 Mar. 2026 The Oscar nominee leaned into the logomania trend earlier this month, posing for Instagram photos in a sheer little black dress interwoven with Gucci's signature monogram. —

Hannah Malach, InStyle, 25 Feb. 2026 How Wellness Has Been Incorporated So far, hospitality chains and establishments that have interwoven wellness from the start are at the forefront of the trend. —

Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 24 Feb. 2026 Such policies were interwoven with the Nazis’ racist ideology. —

Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2026 Almost every room in the house opens to the picturesque Scott Shrader-landscaped grounds, which are interwoven with gardens and lemon trees and host a pool and spa, a pavilion warmed by a wood-burning fireplace, and an alfresco dining area. —

Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 19 Feb. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for interwoven

Adjective

The steady, unwavering empathy of her gaze encompasses a universe of tiny, interlaced incidents in which the zany entwines the plaintive, or the tragic the comic.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
According to rule 8 of the Olympic Charter, the five interlaced rings of the Olympic symbol represent the union of the five continents and the meeting of athletes at the games.

— Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 6 Feb. 2026