attained

American  

[uh-teynd] / əˈteɪnd /

adjective

1. reached or achieved, often after considerable time and effort.

   Any country with a reactor and a fairly easily attained level of expertise can build an atomic bomb.

2. having reached a specified level of accomplishment; skilled or expert.

   He was an eminent professor of religion and a highly attained mystic.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of attain.

Other Word Forms

• unattained adjective
• well-attained adjective

Etymology

Origin of attained

First recorded in 1590–1600; attain ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective senses; attain ( def. ) + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb sense

Example Sentences

Last year, it attained a valuation of $2.96 billion and recently finished two years of digitizing maps and other documents from the state archives in neighboring Zambia, where it hit pay dirt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

When in your career would you say you attained that ease?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

Those goals, he argued, were "scoped and reasonable objectives that can be attained."

From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026

Fellow Englishmen Canter, John Parry and Jordan Smith have also attained membership, while Neergaard-Petersen's strong finish also secured a spot.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2025

But even then, as he swerved back up onto the porch, Mercedes usually managed to uncork a half-dozen infinitely annoying gravel bits that plinked around his feet before he attained her son’s door.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Related Words

• accomplished
• completed
• executed
• finished
• performed