attained
Americanadjective
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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.
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having reached a specified level of accomplishment; skilled or expert.
He was an eminent professor of religion and a highly attained mystic.
verb
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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
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Attained thether, I was lodged at the house of one Iohannes de Imola a Roman caualiero.
From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Gosse, Edmund
The Book is entitled The Assertion and Denial of the Will to Live, where Self-consciousness has been Attained.
From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by Fullerton, George Stuart
O wealth and sovereign power and high success Attained through wisdom and admired of men, What boundless jealousies environ you!
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
Done with the work of breathing; done With all the world; the mad race run Though to the end; the golden goal Attained and found to be a hole!
From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose
B. Rise Kala, rise, I am a mortal man, I'm not omniscient, nor have I yet Attained the goal of goals, enlightenment.—
From The Buddha A Drama in Five Acts and Four Interludes by Carus, Paul
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