attained

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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.

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

Origin of attained

1
First recorded in 1590–1600; attain + -ed2 for the adjective senses; attain + -ed1 for the verb sense

Other words from attained

  • un·at·tained, adjective
  • well-at·tained, adjective

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