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• past tense form of accomplish.
• past participle of accomplish.

accomplished

American  

[uh-kom-plisht] / əˈkɒm plɪʃt /

adjective

1. completed; done; effected.

   an accomplished fact.

2. highly skilled; expert.

   an accomplished pianist.

3. having all the social graces, manners, and other attainments of polite society.

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accomplished British  

/ əˈkɒmplɪʃt, əˈkʌm- /

adjective

1. successfully completed; achieved

2. expert; proficient

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Usage

What does accomplished mean? Accomplished is used to describe someone who has achieved many impressive things in life or in their career. The verb accomplish means "to carry out or finish an action—to complete what you set out to do." To accomplish a goal is to complete it. Some who is considered accomplished has accomplished a lot. The word is especially used to indicate that a person is very experienced, skilled, and perhaps awarded in their field. It is often paired with words for different professions or hobbies, as in accomplished pianist, accomplished surgeon, and accomplished baker. The word can also be used to describe a work that is considered a special achievement, as in His new album is an accomplished entry in his catalog of work. Example: Tina is an accomplished coder—you could learn a lot from her.

Other Word Forms

• superaccomplished
  adjective
• well-accomplished
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of accomplished

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English; accomplish + -ed ²

Explanation

The adjective accomplished is useful for describing someone who's very good at something. You might use it to talk about yourself if you are an accomplished — or highly skilled — sword swallower. An accomplished ice skater is someone who can do one of those fancy twirls on the ice, and an accomplished cupcake baker is someone you want to be friends with. Another way to use the word accomplished is to mean "successfully completed or finished." You might say, "I accomplished my goal of climbing the highest mountain east of the Mississippi River." Next up: Everest.

Example Sentences

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accomplished

“I’m proud of what I accomplished at CBS Sports over the last nine years,” Romo said in a statement released soon after CBS announced the move.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

For consumers, this is unambiguously good: the largest, fastest transfer of value from financial institutions to households in generations, accomplished by software rather than regulation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

You could see the logic of him not playing wing-back against the accomplished Swiss, but no such threat exists against North Macedonia.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Scientists had already accomplished such a measurement for the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger -- GHZ -- state, one of the best known forms of multi-photon entanglement.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

By the time the joint Allied offensive was called off in November, after several weeks of fighting, the French and British had suffered a quarter of a million casualties and had accomplished nothing.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

Related Words

• adept
• consummate
• gifted
• polished
• proficient
• skillful
• talented