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

Jenny Voisard, media and website manager for Friends of Big Bear Valley, a nonprofit that operates cameras trained on Jackie and Shadow, said her inbox is overloaded with complaints about AI content. —

Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2026 The scientists behind the model, which is now being evaluated in a clinical trial, trained it by feeding it CT scans from patients who had been screened for other medical conditions then were later diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. —

Aria Bendix, NBC news, 2 May 2026 Baffert trained them both and is one of only two trainers to lead two horses to the elusive Triple Crown. —

Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 1 May 2026 Several sources, speaking on the condition of anonymity to protect relationships, stated earlier in the week that Onana was expected to miss one or two matches, but had trained on Wednesday and was named in the starting XI on Thursday morning. —

Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 1 May 2026 The Puma, who is trained by Gustavo Delgado, is at 10-1. —

Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026 Sovereignty was the second Derby winner trained by Mott. —

Alex Sundby, CBS News, 1 May 2026 First off, the man in question actually was an expert—not only better trained in depicting the human body (a study not easily accessed by young women of the haute bourgeoisie) but one of the great painters of the nineteenth century. —

Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026 Here's everything to know about how Jaafar Jackson sang and trained to play Michael Jackson in the biopic Michael. —

Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 25 Apr. 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