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- pronunciation:
sI
m
leIt
- parts of speech:
- intransitive verb, transitive verb
- features:
- Word Parts
| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition 1: |
of immigrants or the like, to become absorbed into a new cultural group.
Some religious groups never assimilated into the larger society.- similar words:
- naturalize
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| definition 2: |
to adapt and conform.
The children of the immigrants assimilated more easily than their parents, who held on to their old language and customs.- synonyms:
- adapt, adjust, conform
- similar words:
- accommodate, convert
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| related words: |
adapt, adjust, conform |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
assimilates, assimilating, assimilated |
| definition: |
to help or force (people of a different culture) to adapt and become similar to a larger or more dominant group within a region and to become part of that population.
The villagers were assimilated into the society of the conquerors.- synonyms:
- integrate
- similar words:
- accustom, blend, convert, transform, unite
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| related words: |
absorb, adapt, get |
| derivations: |
assimilative (adj.), assimilator (n.) |
The word assimilate
contains the following parts:
sim, semb
Latin
root
that means like, similar
  Example words:
-ate1
Latin
verb-forming suffix
that means to make, cause, do
More about this word part:
The suffix -ate
primarily forms transitive verbs from Latin bases. Many -ate
verbs were loanwords from Latin. Verbs ending in -ate
combine with the suffix -ion to form nouns ending in -ation. These verbs also have corresponding agent nouns ending in -ator (navigator, dictator, elevator).
Example words:
abbreviate, abdicate, accelerate, accommodate, accumulate, activate, adequate, administrator, advocate, affiliate, aggravate, agitate, alternate, animate, annihilate, assimilate, associate, circulate, collaborate, commemorate, complicate, concentrate, congregate, consecrate, cooperate, coordinate, dedicate, dehydrate, deliberate, dictate, disintegrate, dislocate, domesticate, dominate, donate, duplicate, educate, elaborate, elevate, emigrate, enunciate, eradicate, evacuate, exasperate, generate, graduate, illuminate, illustrate, incorporate, interrogate, irrigate, liberate, locate, narrate, navigate, nominate, operate, originate, participate, populate, radiate, regulate, rotate, segregate, terminate
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