TRAINED Synonyms: 301 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

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as in housebroken

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trained

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verb

past tense of train

as in prepared

to bring to a proper or desired state of fitness has been training track-and-field athletes at the school for years

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deconditioned

as in taught

to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field will train the students in good study habits

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as in focused

to fix (as one's attention) steadily toward a central objective train all your thoughts on imagining how you'd score the winning goal in the game

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as in aimed

to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal trained his eyes on the distant bull's-eye

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as in equipped

to make competent (as by training, skill, or ability) for a particular office or function he's so experienced that they usually use him to train new recruits

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Recent Examples of trained

Adjective

Hundreds of millions of people are using its generative AI tools each week, so people are beginning to tap into the power of these generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) and large language models (LLMs). —

Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 Feb. 2026 Even trained and experienced guides may violate emotional or interpersonal boundaries of participants, who are in vulnerable and suggestible states brought on by the effects of the drugs themselves. —

Erica Rex, STAT, 19 Feb. 2026 Oasis Tutoring is just one component of the national Oasis program, which connects trained volunteers, typically aged 50-plus, with students needing help across the Ramona Unified School District. —

Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026 The use of pre-trained teacher networks and machine learning frameworks means enterprises need to make sure the machine learning supply chain is secure. —

IEEE Spectrum, 11 Mar. 2021

Verb

These mad scientists then trained a small flock of sheep to recognize four celebrities—Emma Watson, Barack Obama, Jake Gyllenhaal, and the BBC newsreader Fiona Bruce—from their pictures on the internet. —

Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 9 May 2026 In an interview with CBS Philadelphia, Kuzel said Indy was trained to detect 16 different kinds of mold. —

Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 9 May 2026 Beginning in 2023, DeVaux trained her best horse pre-Golden Tempo. —

Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 9 May 2026 In many cases, they are trained to collect information without being exposed. —

Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026 The massive fines came a day after the midfielders tussled when the team trained. —

ABC News, 8 May 2026 Allowing people who haven’t been properly trained to work as nurses creates a potential threat to public safety, and that’s the worst fallout from the Operation Nightingale scandal, some in the industry say. —

Annie Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026 Huang was born in Germany to Chinese parents, trained at the Shaolin temple at 14, competed for Germany on the international stage and spent a decade working inside the Hong Kong action system under Chan. —

Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 May 2026 Urban trained in movement and martial arts for more than three months to play Cage, and added some of his own lines. —

Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for trained

Adjective

One housebroken joey would watch television in their living room.

— Washington Post, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2021
The country’s leading art educator was the mediocre German painter Anton Raphael Mengs, who promulgated a sort of housebroken neoclassicism.

— Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020