accomplished

ac·com·plished

adjective

Definition of ACCOMPLISHED

1

a : proficient as the result of practice or training <an accomplished dancer>; also : skillfully done or produced <an accomplished film>

b : having many social accomplishments

2

: established beyond doubt or dispute <an accomplished fact>

Examples of ACCOMPLISHED

1. She has the confidence of an accomplished athlete.
2. He is one of the school's most accomplished graduates.

First Known Use of ACCOMPLISHED

15th century

Related to ACCOMPLISHED

Synonyms

cultivated, civilized, couth, cultured, genteel, polished, refined

Antonyms

barbaric, barbarous, philistine, uncivilized, uncultured, ungenteel, unpolished, unrefined

Related Words

cerebral, highbrow, highbrowed, high-toned, intellectual, intellectualist, intellectualistic; bourgeois, middlebrow; educated, erudite, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, well-read; civil, courteous, mannerly, polite, well-bred; cosmopolitan, sophisticated, urbane; hypercivilized, overcivilized, oversophisticated

Near Antonyms

ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlettered; lowbrow, unintelligent; coarse, ill-bred, ill-mannered; backwoods, provincial, rustic (also rustical); inelegant, polyester, unsophisticated; boorish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, crude, uncouth, vulgar