TRAINED Synonyms: 301 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in housebroken

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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

Families may also appreciate that the kids’ club has trained autism-spectrum counselors. —

Chelsea Adams, USA Today, 20 June 2026 We were trained for the first problem. —

Julie Averill, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026 And Louis, perhaps exhausted from his spree of bouts, but also perhaps looking past Schmeling, hadn’t trained much. —

Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026 The state relies on importing doctors trained elsewhere — a strategy that is increasingly difficult to sustain. —

Jocelyn Mitchell-Williams, STAT, 19 June 2026 The second film stars Paul Mescal as Lucius, the son of Maximus, who returns to Rome as a prisoner and is trained to be a gladiator for Macrinus, a former slave played by Denzel Washington, who has plans to overthrow the twin emperors. —

Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2026 Researchers trained the sensing system using more than 12,000 data samples collected during 157 cutting motions. —

Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 June 2026 While the Qatari national team practiced at nearby PayPal Park Friday morning, Switzerland trained in San Diego early in the day before hopping on a plane and making the short flight to San Jose. —

Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 13 June 2026 So long as cyber staff were well-trained on networks, firewalls, and malware, strong technical specialization was sufficient. —

Harpreet Sidhu, Fortune, 13 June 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