ASSIMILATED Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

assimilated

verb

past tense of assimilate

as in compared

to describe as similar assimilated the 19th-century American captains of industry and commerce to the medieval barons who exorbitantly taxed shipping along the Rhine

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contrasted

as in understood

to have a clear idea of still trying to assimilate the doctor's diagnosis of my heart condition

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as in integrated

to make a part of a body or system social workers will need time to assimilate the new arrivals into the community

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Recent Examples of assimilated The news comes after Prime Video assimilated MX Player into its service earlier this year. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026 Something Sculptural As the name would suggest, the Rodin stool from Arhaus has a sculptural appeal—it can be easily assimilated into a sophisticated bar setup, or used to dress up a more casual breakfast bar. — Kelly Dawson, Architectural Digest, 17 Aug. 2026 The trio has assimilated perfectly, down to their graying wigs. — Susan-Elizabeth Littlefield, CBS News, 13 July 2026 Many of these children not only survived, but learned the skills and lifeways of their captors, often becoming fully assimilated into the cultures that had once seemed utterly foreign. — Literary Hub, 8 July 2026 Chef Kevin Liao also distinguishes the kitchen with his illuminating Toisanese specialties, a regional subgenre of Cantonese cuisine either rarely seen in Los Angeles or so deeply assimilated into more generalized Cantonese menus that its distinctions are hard to parse. — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026 Those students will be assimilated into their home campuses. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2026 Another appearance in print occurs in 1880, in the memoirs of a Canadian missionary called Sheldon Jackson—also a prominent founder of schools where Native children were forcibly assimilated. — Glenn Adamson, Artforum, 2 May 2026 The growth of colonial Australian society came at the expense of the Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander peoples, who were often dispossessed of their land, exposed to foreign diseases, and either pushed into marginal areas or forcibly assimilated into European culture. — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026

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Einstein’s special theory of relativity shows that, compared with a stationary observer, time flows more slowly for moving objects.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2026
The superintendent, Chris Ragsdale, compared people who oppose book banning to people who support human trafficking.

— Adam Beam, AJC.com, 4 Sep. 2026

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It's already deeply integrated into the European framework, partly through its membership of the European Economic Area, which gives the volcanic island access to the EU's single market without requiring full membership.

— Azhar Sukri, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2026
The advanced weapon features AV’s 20kW-class LOCUST LWS integrated on the General Motors Defense Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV) platform–a significant advancement in mobile, frontline C-UAS capabilities.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026

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As the commission moved toward a vote on the plan, there was a certain resignation among the ballroom skeptics, who knew that they were outnumbered.

— Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
His team-mates and Cisse were among those who knew what happened, while the club tried to help him.

— Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026

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In its comprehensive plan, the city of Eagle identifies the BLM land Bobo is cleaning up as a major component of the Foothills, calling for public lands to be incorporated into a larger open-space and wildlife-corridor network.

— Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 2 Sep. 2026
Eventually, many of UL’s standards were incorporated into US law.

— Alison J. Stein, HubSpot, 1 Sep. 2026

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Uncertainty notwithstanding, the longevity world has glommed onto the notion that the vaginal microbiome is some kind of exotic tealeaf that can be deciphered—and perfected by purchasing the right supplements.

— Sarah DiGregorio, Vanity Fair, 27 July 2026
Its successor script, Linea B, was also a mystery until it was deciphered in 1952 by an amateur linguist and cryptographer Michael Ventris with the help of classicist John Chadwick, both building on patterns in the script first identified by classicist Alice Kober.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 23 June 2026

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