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

Called knot invariants, these tools each measure some aspect of a knot — a pattern formed by its interwoven strands, perhaps, or the topology of the space surrounding it. —

Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2026 Away from the obvious icons lie natural wonders where ecology, history, and culture remain tightly interwoven, and where human presence has often been defined by restraint rather than conquest. —

Rob Crossan, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Apr. 2026 Parasites & Power is a six-part podcast series of interwoven stories about the colonial origins of today’s global public health system. —

Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2026 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

Verb

Cultural memory, identity, sense of place, surveillance and urban life are all interwoven like the threads of a carpet in a new exhibition at The Art & History Museums of Maitland. —

Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2026 Flanking the temple’s entryway and set in the heart of the heritage district, the hotel feels intrinsically linked to Khoo Kongsi and deeply interwoven into the fabric of George Town. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026 These were interwoven with chapters set in the present-tense and centering Cleo, the descendent of these immigrants and, like me, a half-white, half-Chinese millennial. —

Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026 Vineyards are interwoven with orchards, grazing areas, and native vegetation, while Kiko goats help manage undergrowth and Great Pyrenees dogs protect the property. —

Mark David, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2026 We are interwoven as human beings in this globe, in this art form, in these practices. —

David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 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

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