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attained

[uh-teyn]

verb (used with object)

to reach, achieve, or accomplish; gain; obtain: to attain one's goals.

to come to or arrive at, especially after some labor or tedium; reach: to attain the age of 96; to attain the mountain peak.

verb (used without object)

to arrive at or succeed in reaching or obtaining something (usually followed by to or unto): to attain to knowledge.

to reach in the course of development or growth: These trees attain to remarkable height.

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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English atei(g)nen < Anglo-French, Old French ateign- (stem of ateindre) < Vulgar Latin *attangere (for Latin attingere), equivalent to Latin at- at- + tangere to touch

Related forms

at·tain·er, noun

re·at·tain, verb (used with object)

un·at·tained, adjective

un·at·tain·ing, adjective

well-at·tained, adjective

Synonyms
1. secure. See gain¹.

Antonyms
1, 2. miss.

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Example Sentences

The show attained its biggest audience, some six million viewers, in the mid-1980's.

Balance isn't a thing you can grasp or a noun of any sort to be attained.

Without reproduction, we'd have long ago attained paradise on earth.

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The show attained its biggest audience, some six million viewers, in the mid-1980's.

Balance isn't a thing you can grasp or a noun of any sort to be attained.

Without reproduction, we'd have long ago attained paradise on earth.

Relief because the long grind was over and the unattainable had been attained.

Augustine certainly knows when trajectories change and escape velocities are attained.

How this mask attained treasure status in the first place is a tale of another sort.

Culms of all bamboos have already attained their maximum diameter when they emerge from the ground.

My introduction to the nuances of culinary geekery were definitely attained apart from my parents.

Montenegro is already beginning to pay the penalty of such civilization as it has attained.

Having attained such formidable size, they have no natural enemies.

As unemployment rises, prices and wages are bid down, until the needed depreciation is attained.

At both grades, the higher the parental education level reported, the higher the average score attained.

Broad and deep can only be attained by collaboration.

How the victory was attained has become a hotly contested matter.

But surely such meager educational benefits could be attained in some other, more effective way.

America is a distant shore attained only after great difficulty.

We're celebrating people who have attained personal adventure goals.

Speculation comes in degrees of certainty, even if absolute certainty cannot be attained.

Yet, current technology has attained a level of sophistication where it's reasonable for us to begin this effort.

I'd bet that this credential was attained after the individual was hired, or certainly after s/he entered academia in general.

Rockefeller attained much greater economic clout than he has.

For me, the sagas were a means of getting to the root of a place that had already attained mythic status in my imagination.

It's been found that lower salt levels can only be attained by governments forcing manufacturers to comply.

What you do with that freedom once you've attained it well, that's up to you.

The second would be the identification of a valid means of determining the extent to which the goals were attained.

Nor was there any increase in the maximum windspeed that storms attained anywhere.

Sometimes the models change as more evidence is attained.

Instead if the following approach is utilized a better result is attained.

While some improvement is attained with a runoff election, it has problems.

There were also several freshwater ponds in the area where specimens could be easily attained.

If it is still crisply crunchy, you have not attained nirvana.

Countries where schools have already attained a higher standard should become pickier in choosing teachers.

These dogs have attained a money value beyond that of even a finely.

In the intervening two months some of the cane had attained a height of five feet.

It sometimes seems as if in a certain number of cases the principal result attained is a provision for the survival of the unfit.

But, it is an indication of some significant level of knowledge attained from the bachelor's/masters degree studies.

And in many cases the innovation has to be re-invented many times before success is attained.

All those that he helped attained heights they never could have without his support.

Flier is a learned and accomplished scientist or he would not have attained such a lofty position in academia.

It is sometimes the case that the public good cannot be attained or maintained without evil and cruel methods.

Many successful women in academe still feel that women have not yet attained full parity with their male counterparts.

Many of us have attained our own academic and professional dreams and aspirations under their tutelage, directly or indirectly.

People who are poor performers but have attained power may be trying to victimize better performers.

Perhaps they even attained greatness because of their.

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Word Origin & History

attain

c.1300, "to succeed in reaching," from stem of O.Fr. ataindre (11c., Mod.Fr. atteindre) "to come up to, reach, attain, endeavor, strive," from V.L. *adtangere, from L. attingere "to touch, to arrive at," from ad- "to" + tangere "to touch" (see tangent).

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"That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the reason of so very few, is a sad instance of the stupidity and inattention of men, who, though they are surrounded with such clear manifestations of the Deity, are yet so little affected by them, that they seem as it were blinded with excess of light."

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