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

Martinez went to Vietnam last summer, the sixth different country she’s wrestled or trained in. —

Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 22 Feb. 2026 Staff are well-trained and proactive without being patronizing, and the hotel’s smaller scale makes navigation easy. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Feb. 2026 She is microchipped, fully vaccinated and litterbox-trained and is all ready for her new home. —

Maryanne Dell, Oc Register, 21 Feb. 2026 Working in healthcare trained Silvia to see how systems operate, while her years in immigration law revealed the human stories that move within them. —

Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026 Berterame finally got his visa after weeks of waiting, trained with the team this week and will be able to play on Saturday. —

Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2026 They were trained and prepared for backcountry travel and trusted their professional guides on this trip. —

Evan Bush, NBC news, 20 Feb. 2026 Anfield bar staff are also being trained in basic sign language and there will be fan interpreters at every home game to translate pre-match announcements. —

James Pearce, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026 George trained for months and months and months. —

Carole Horst, Variety, 14 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