conjoined

United as one

Conjoined means joined together or united.

The word appears most often in conjoined twins—siblings born physically connected, sharing tissue or organs.

Outside this medical context, conjoined sounds formal or literary: Their fates were conjoined from that moment.

fused

welded

Joined metals by melting

spliced · grafted · soldered · amalgamated · blended · coalesced · synthesized · alloyed · compounded · interfused

inseparable

indivisible

Unable to be divided

unified · bonded · interdependent · symbiotic · indissoluble · permanent · unbreakable · interlinked · mutual · reciprocal

twins

Siamese

Of old Thailand

shared · organs · identical · parasitic · Chang · surgical · rare · anomaly · genetic · embryology

attached

connected

Joined to another

fastened · bound · tethered · bridged · yoked · hitched · clasped · clamped · sutured · stitched

intertwined

entwined

Wrapped around one another

meshed · braided · knotted · woven · twisted · intermingled · commingled · enmeshed · tangled · wrapped

Categories
Opposites
physical attachment/connection

conjoinedseparate

To set apart

separated · detached · disjoined · severed · disconnected

unity/association

conjoinedseparate

To set apart

divided · disunited · dissociated · estranged · fragmented

Phrases
Family

conjoin, conjoining, conjointly, conjoins, conjoined twins

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