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trained Synonyms

trained

modif.

prepared, qualified, initiated, skilled, informed, schooled, primed, graduated, disciplined, enlightened; see also educated 1.

Antonyms inexperienced*, untrained*, raw*.

trained Quotes

I started out very quiet and I beat MrTurgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr De Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one.But nobody's going to get me in any ring with MrTolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.

—Hemingway, Ernest Millar

There are as many fools at a university as anywhere† But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampöthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.

—Gerhardie,William Alexander