TRAINED Synonyms: 301 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

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as in housebroken

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as in qualified

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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

At least 1,000 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division, trained to land in hostile territory to secure key positions and airfields, have been ordered to the Middle East. —

ABC News, 29 Mar. 2026 Martha’s father, a law professor, had trained her to be a rational, step-by-step arguer. —

Cassandra Neyenesch, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026 Pairing up Horse mounted patrol officers are trained to be able to ride any horse within their unit, but they’re paired with one in particular, until the animal retires. —

Eve Chen, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2026 Twenty years ago, thousands of 15- to 16-year-olds would’ve been trained on how to run a film projector since that’s what the majority of movie theaters used. —

Joseph Hernandez march 28, Kansas City Star, 28 Mar. 2026 Born June 19, 1957 in New York City, Caldwell trained at the School of Visual Arts. —

Glenn Garner, Deadline, 28 Mar. 2026 McAlister also credited Derek Dorris, a former NFL wide receiver who trained him during his time at Azle. —

Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Mar. 2026 For her part, Jaques posited that the AI systems' language-altering behavior could be a result of how they are currently trained, which might reward the manipulation of graders’ preferences. —

Jared Perlo, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026 People with humanities backgrounds are trained to sit inside complexity without rushing to closure. —

Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 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