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

Verb

The company's installers are trained and certified, and every product is custom-built to fit the specific dimensions of each opening. —

Community's Choice Awards, Florida Times-Union, 7 Mar. 2026 These companies refuse to disclose what data their models are trained one or how their systems reach conclusions. —

Parmy Olson, Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2026 Large language models are trained to be helpful and agreeable, often validating a user’s beliefs or emotions. —

Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2026 LaFayette later trained Black youth to become leaders in the Chicago Freedom Movement and helped organize tenant unions. —

CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026 The fact that these systems are trained on biased, Western-centric data is precisely why students must learn to question them. —

Maximilian Milovidov, NPR, 6 Mar. 2026 The Evo2 model was trained on 9 trillion DNA letters much as other AIs train on internet text, and when given a chunk of a microbe’s genome, was able to create a plausible-looking version of the rest. —

Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 6 Mar. 2026 Employees have not been trained in procedures to measure temperature or sanitizer concentration in the ware washing process. —

Sacbee.com, 6 Mar. 2026 In October, dogs specially trained in human remains detection scanned the area where Mercury had confessed to leaving Cheryl’s body. —

Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 28 Feb. 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