imbedded

The word “imbedded” has 3 syllables: im-bed-ded

It's pronounced as /ɪmˈbɛdɪd/


What is synonym and antonym for imbedded?

In the thesaurus, “imbedded” has 55 synonyms and 21 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for imbedded along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for imbedded

  • abiding
  • accustomed
  • bedded
  • bred-in-the-bone
  • chronic
  • confirmed
  • customary
  • deep
  • deep-rooted
  • deep-seated
  • enduring
  • engrained
  • enrooted
  • entrenched
  • established
  • firm
  • fixed
  • frozen
  • habitual
  • hard
  • hard-and-fast
  • hard-core
  • imbued
  • immutable
  • impacted
  • implanted
  • inborn
  • inbred
  • inculcated
  • infused
  • ingrained
  • inherent
  • innate
  • instilled
  • integral
  • intrenched
  • intrinsic
  • inveterate
  • irradicable
  • lifelong
  • lodged
  • natural
  • persistent
  • persisting
  • placed
  • put
  • regular
  • rooted
  • set
  • settled
  • stuck
  • typical
  • unalterable
  • unchangeable
  • usual

Antonyms for imbedded

  • brief
  • detached
  • disconnected
  • disengaged
  • dislodged
  • ejected
  • eliminated
  • ephemeral
  • eradicated
  • expelled
  • fleeting
  • impermanent
  • interim
  • momentary
  • provisional
  • removed
  • short-lived
  • short-term
  • temporary
  • transient
  • uprooted

Meanings of imbedded

  • verb
    1. To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
    2. (by extension) To include in surrounding matter.
    3. To encapsulate within another document or data file.
    4. To define a one-to-one function from (one set) to another so that certain properties of the domain are preserved when considering the image as a subset of the codomain.

Example Sentences

  • The archaeologists discovered ancient tools imbedded in the layers of rock.
  • Her memories of the event were deeply imbedded in her mind.
  • The reporter was imbedded with the troops to cover the conflict firsthand.
  • Tiny seeds were imbedded in the rich soil, ready to sprout in the spring.
  • The diamond was imbedded in the intricate gold necklace.

On this page you'll find 76 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to imbedded, such as: abiding, accustomed, bedded, bred-in-the-bone, brief, chronic, confirmed.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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lapped

  • babbled
  • bathe
  • bathed
  • blanketed
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  • bowered
  • bubble
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  • burble
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  • embedded
  • embosomed
  • embowered
  • embraced
  • encased
  • encircled
  • enclosed
  • encompassed
  • enfold
  • enfolded
  • enlaced
  • enshrouded
  • enswathed
  • envelop
  • enveloped
  • enwound
  • enwrapped
  • fold
  • guggled
  • gurgle
  • gurgled
  • gushed
  • imbedded
  • imbricate
  • inclosed
  • invested
  • involved
  • jetted
  • lave
  • laved
  • lick
  • lip
  • lipped
  • mantled
  • masked
  • muffled
  • overlaid
  • overlapped
  • overlay
  • overlie
  • override
  • overspread
  • plash
  • plashed
  • purl
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  • ride
  • ripple
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  • shingle
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  • shrouded
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  • spouted
  • spurted
  • squirted
  • sup
  • swaddle
  • swaddled
  • swashed
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  • swished
  • swooshed
  • trickled
  • turn
  • twist
  • veiled
  • washed
  • whished
  • wrap
  • wrapped

veiled

  • appareled
  • apparelled
  • arrayed
  • attired
  • beclouded
  • bedimmed
  • befogged
  • belied
  • blanketed
  • blocked
  • blotted out
  • bosomed
  • bowered
  • buried
  • camouflaged
  • caparisoned
  • circled
  • circumfused
  • clad
  • cloaked
  • clothed
  • clouded
  • cocooned
  • concealed
  • covered
  • curtained
  • darkened
  • decent
  • disguised
  • draped
  • dressed
  • eclipsed
  • embedded
  • embosomed
  • embowered
  • embraced
  • encased
  • encircled
  • enclosed
  • encompassed
  • enfolded
  • enlaced
  • enshrouded
  • enswathed
  • enveloped
  • enwound
  • enwrapped
  • garbed
  • gilded
  • gilt
  • hid
  • hidden
  • hooded
  • imbedded
  • inclosed
  • invested
  • invisible
  • involved
  • lapped
  • mantled
  • masked
  • muffled
  • obscured
  • obstructed
  • occluded
  • occulted
  • overcast
  • overlaid
  • overshadowed
  • overspread
  • papered over
  • robed
  • screened
  • secret
  • shaded
  • shielded
  • shrouded
  • smothered
  • suited
  • suppressed
  • swaddled
  • swathed
  • undercover
  • unexposed
  • unrecognizable
  • unrevealed
  • varnished
  • vested
  • whitewashed
  • wrapped

fastened

  • adhered
  • affixed
  • aimed
  • anchored
  • attached
  • attended
  • battened
  • belayed
  • bent
  • bolted
  • bonded
  • bound
  • buttoned
  • caught
  • cemented
  • centered
  • cinched
  • clamped
  • clasped
  • clenched
  • clinched
  • clipped
  • coapted
  • concentrated
  • connected
  • did up
  • directed
  • embedded
  • engrained
  • entrenched
  • fast
  • firm
  • fixed
  • focused
  • focussed
  • frozen
  • glued
  • hanged
  • harnessed
  • hasped
  • heeded
  • hitched
  • hung
  • imbedded
  • immovable
  • impacted
  • implanted
  • ingrained
  • intrenched
  • jammed
  • joined
  • laced
  • lashed
  • latched
  • leveled
  • levelled
  • linked
  • lodged
  • minded
  • moored
  • nailed
  • pasted
  • pinned
  • plastered
  • pointed
  • reaffixed
  • reattached
  • refastened
  • refixed
  • refocused
  • resecured
  • riveted
  • screwed
  • secured
  • set
  • shackled
  • snug
  • stapled
  • strapped
  • stuck
  • stuffed
  • tacked
  • tackled
  • tied
  • tight
  • toggled
  • trained
  • united
  • unyielding
  • wedged
  • yoked

jammed

  • abounding
  • anchored
  • attached
  • barred
  • bloated
  • blocked
  • bonded
  • bored
  • bound
  • brimful
  • brimmed
  • brimming
  • bulked
  • bulldozed
  • bulled
  • bunged
  • bursting
  • busy
  • caught
  • cemented
  • charged
  • chock-full
  • chockablock
  • chockful
  • choked
  • clamped
  • clogged
  • clotted
  • congested
  • corked
  • crammed
  • crashed
  • crowded
  • crushed
  • dammed
  • deluged
  • drenched
  • elbowed
  • embedded
  • entrenched
  • fast
  • fastened
  • fat
  • filled
  • firm
  • fixed
  • flooded
  • flush
  • fraught
  • frozen
  • full
  • furred
  • glued
  • glutted
  • gridlocked
  • heaped
  • honeycombed
  • humming
  • imbedded
  • immovable
  • impacted
  • implanted
  • intrenched
  • inundated
  • jam-packed
  • jampacked
  • jostled
  • lively
  • loaded
  • lodged
  • malfunctioning
  • matted
  • mobbed
  • multitudinous
  • muscled
  • obstructed
  • occluded
  • out of order
  • overcharged
  • overcrowded
  • overfilled
  • overflowed
  • overflowing
  • overfull
  • overladen
  • overloaded
  • overstuffed
  • overwhelmed
  • packed
  • penetrated
  • populous
  • pressed
  • pushed
  • rammed
  • refilled
  • refreshed
  • reloaded
  • repacked
  • replenished
  • replete
  • rife
  • sandwiched
  • saturated
  • secured
  • set
  • shoehorned
  • shouldered
  • shoved
  • silted
  • snug
  • spiled
  • squashed
  • squeezed
  • stiff
  • stoppered
  • stoppled
  • stuck
  • stuffed
  • swamped
  • swarming
  • swollen
  • teeming
  • thrust
  • tight
  • trammeled
  • unworkable
  • unyielding
  • warped
  • wedged

fast

  • PDQ
  • a mile a minute
  • abbreviated
  • abridged
  • abrupt
  • abruptly
  • absolutely
  • abstain
  • abstinence
  • abundantly
  • accelerated
  • active
  • acute
  • adherent
  • agile
  • alert
  • all
  • all of
  • all over
  • all the way
  • altogether
  • anchored
  • apace
  • appetite
  • apt
  • ardent
  • artful
  • astute
  • at full throttle
  • at full tilt
  • at length
  • at speed
  • attached
  • avid
  • basically
  • bawdy
  • beefy
  • beguiling
  • belly
  • bent
  • blistering
  • blue streak
  • bombproof
  • bonded
  • bound
  • brainy
  • breakneck
  • breathless
  • breathtaking
  • brief
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • brisk
  • briskly
  • by and large
  • by leaps and bounds
  • cagey
  • cagy
  • careless
  • categorically
  • cemented
  • cerebral
  • chiefly
  • chop-chop
  • clamped
  • clean
  • clever
  • close
  • cohesive
  • cold
  • compact
  • compendious
  • completely
  • concise
  • condensed
  • confirmed
  • constant
  • constrained
  • copiously
  • crafty
  • craving
  • creative
  • crisp
  • crooked
  • cunning
  • curtailed
  • cut-back
  • dashing
  • dead
  • debauched
  • deceitful
  • deceiving
  • deceptive
  • dedicated
  • deeply
  • defrauding
  • deluding
  • delusive
  • delusory
  • deny oneself
  • dependable
  • depraved
  • determined
  • devil-may-care
  • devious
  • devoted
  • devout
  • diet
  • discerning
  • dishonest
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • dizzy
  • double-dealing
  • double-quick
  • double-time
  • down the line
  • down to the ground
  • down-the-line
  • downright
  • duplicitous
  • durable
  • dutiful
  • dyed-in-the-wool
  • easy
  • educated
  • electric
  • embedded
  • emptiness
  • energetic
  • energetically
  • enough
  • enthusiastic
  • entire
  • entirely
  • entrenched
  • ephemeral
  • epigrammatic
  • erudite
  • even
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  • exceptional
  • expeditious
  • expeditiously
  • expeditive
  • extravagant
  • faithful
  • false
  • famine
  • famish
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  • fastened
  • fasting
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • firm
  • firmly
  • flashing
  • flat
  • flat-out
  • fleet
  • fleet-footed
  • fleeting
  • fleetly
  • flirtatious
  • flying
  • for fair
  • forbear
  • fortified
  • foxy
  • fraudulent
  • frivolous
  • frozen
  • full
  • full tilt
  • fully
  • furtive
  • gadabout
  • galloping
  • generally
  • generously
  • genial
  • giddy
  • glued
  • gluttony
  • go hungry
  • good
  • gourmandism
  • greatly
  • greed
  • guileful
  • gung ho
  • hairtrigger
  • hands down
  • hard
  • hastened
  • hastily
  • hasty
  • heady
  • heartily
  • held
  • hell-for-leather
  • high-speed
  • highbrow
  • hoggishness
  • hot
  • hunger
  • hunger strike
  • hurried
  • hurriedly
  • hyperintelligent
  • hypersonic
  • imbedded
  • immediately
  • immovable
  • impacted
  • impassioned
  • impermanent
  • impetuously
  • implanted
  • impregnable
  • impulsively
  • in a flash
  • in a hurry
  • in a jiffy
  • in haste
  • in nothing flat
  • in short order
  • in whole
  • incontinent
  • indecent
  • indelible
  • inextricable
  • informed
  • infrangible
  • ingenious
  • insidious
  • insightful
  • intelligent
  • intemperate
  • intent
  • intrenched
  • inventive
  • inveterate
  • irrefragable
  • jammed
  • judicious
  • keen
  • knowing
  • knowledgeable
  • laconic
  • largely
  • lascivious
  • lasting
  • learned
  • lecherous
  • lewd
  • libertine
  • libidinous
  • licentious
  • lickety split
  • lickety-split
  • light
  • lightning
  • like a bat out of hell
  • like a flash
  • like a shot
  • like all get out
  • like crazy
  • like gangbusters
  • like greased lightning
  • like mad
  • like wildfire
  • literate
  • little
  • lodged
  • logical
  • loose
  • loyal
  • lustful
  • mainly
  • malnutrition
  • momentary
  • more or less
  • mostly
  • munchies
  • nimble
  • nippy
  • not eat
  • on the double
  • out
  • overall
  • passionate
  • perceptive
  • percipient
  • perfectly
  • perfidious
  • permanent
  • perspicacious
  • pious
  • pithy
  • plain
  • plumb
  • posthaste
  • predominantly
  • predominately
  • presto
  • primarily
  • principally
  • profligate
  • prompt
  • promptly
  • pronto
  • prudent
  • quick
  • quick-witted
  • quickened
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  • quite
  • racing
  • rakish
  • rapaciousness
  • rapacity
  • rapid
  • rapid-fire
  • rapidly
  • rashly
  • rational
  • rattling
  • ravenousness
  • readily
  • ready
  • reasonable
  • reckless
  • recklessly
  • refrain
  • reliable
  • resistant
  • resolute
  • resourceful
  • responsible
  • rogue
  • rush
  • rushed
  • sagacious
  • sage
  • salacious
  • sane
  • sapient
  • savvy
  • scholarly
  • schooled
  • secure
  • secured
  • securely
  • self-gratifying
  • self-indulgent
  • sensible
  • serious
  • set
  • shady
  • sharp
  • sharp-witted
  • shifty
  • short
  • short-lived
  • short-range
  • short-term
  • shortened
  • shortish
  • shrewd
  • skilled
  • slick
  • slippery
  • sly
  • smart
  • snap
  • snappily
  • snappy
  • sneaking
  • sneaky
  • snug
  • solid
  • solidly
  • soon
  • sound
  • soundly
  • speedball
  • speedily
  • speedy
  • split-second
  • splitting
  • sportive
  • sporty
  • stable
  • stalwart
  • stanch
  • starvation
  • starve
  • staunch
  • steadfast
  • steadfastly
  • steady
  • stomach
  • stone
  • stone-cold
  • strenuous
  • strong
  • stuck
  • sturdy
  • substantially
  • subtle
  • succinct
  • sudden
  • suddenly
  • summary
  • supersmart
  • supersonic
  • sure
  • sweet tooth
  • swift
  • swiftly
  • sworn
  • syncopated
  • tenacious
  • terse
  • thoroughly
  • through and through
  • tight
  • tightly
  • to bits
  • to pieces
  • to the hilt
  • to the max
  • totally
  • tough
  • trained
  • transient
  • transitory
  • treacherous
  • trickish
  • tricky
  • tried
  • tried-and-true
  • true
  • true blue
  • true-blue
  • trustworthy
  • trusty
  • ultrafast
  • ultrarapid
  • ultrasmart
  • unbreakable
  • unchaste
  • unconscionable
  • underhand
  • underhanded
  • undernourishment
  • unethical
  • unfaltering
  • unhesitating
  • unprincipled
  • unqualifiedly
  • unscrupulous
  • unwavering
  • unyielding
  • utterly
  • velocious
  • vigorous
  • vigorously
  • voraciousness
  • voracity
  • wanton
  • wedged
  • well
  • well-read
  • whirlwind
  • wholly
  • wide
  • wild
  • wily
  • winged
  • wise
  • xerophagy
  • zippy

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