attained
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.
having reached a specified level of accomplishment; skilled or expert: He was an eminent professor of religion and a highly attained mystic.
the simple past tense and past participle of attain.
Origin of attained
1Other words from attained
- un·at·tained, adjective
- well-at·tained, adjective
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How to use attained in a sentence
Thirty-seven years later, that destiny remains largely unattained.
The Post-Brown and Garner Question: Who ‘Deserves’ to Die? | Goldie Taylor | December 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis only proves that the true rest was still unattained, and Gods promise not yet fulfilled.
The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews | Thomas Charles EdwardsHe had been very successful so far, but the sum total on which he and his companions had set their hearts was still unattained.
Grandmother Dear | Mrs. MolesworthThe idea is that of a movement of yearning after an unattained good.
The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon | Alexander MaclarenThe ideal about which we hear so much, is as unattained as the fabled bag of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Marse Henry (Vol. 1) | Henry Watterson
My love unattained, you perceive, makes me wretched, while you always gave me calm and peace.
A Journey in Other Worlds | John Jacob Astor
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