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

Serna had trained with Prefontaine, holder of all seven American records between 2,000 and 10,000 meters, on a March recruiting trip to Oregon. —

Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 30 May 2026 Machine-learning algorithms trained on data gathered across five scenarios – normal activity, ultraviolet light exposure, chemical exposure, heat, and the presence of food – were able to identify the insect’s environmental state with 93 percent accuracy. —

Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 30 May 2026 Executive chef Anand Singh, born in the Himalayan foothills and trained across six countries, runs a menu that moves between Indian live-fire cooking traditions and influences from Japan, China and Thailand. —

Winston Ross, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026 If a dog attacks, carriers are trained to use their mail satchel as a shield and to deploy dog repellent if necessary. —

Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026 Over time, Strider has trained himself to separate the event from the emotion attached to it. —

Elise Devlin, New York Times, 29 May 2026 Sylvio Cator in downtown Port-au-Prince was where the national team trained for decades, even for its last and only World Cup stint in the 70s. —

Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 29 May 2026 The United States continues to build humanoids that are extraordinary in the conditions they were trained for and brittle everywhere else. —

Robert Ambrose, Fortune, 23 May 2026 The coroners are not counselors but facilitators who have been trained through a program called Facing the Mourning, developed at the Heart Light Center in Denver. —

Collaborative Colorado, Denver Post, 23 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