Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Skilled; expert: synonym: proficient.
- adjective Having many social graces; polished or refined.
- adjective Unquestionable; indubitable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Completed; effected: as, an accomplished fact.
- Perfected; finished; consummate: used in either a good or a bad sense: as, an accomplished scholar; an accomplished villain.
- Possessing accomplishments; having the attainments and graces of cultivated or fashionable society.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Completed; effected; established.
- adjective Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact
- adjective Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain
- adjective
Sophisticated - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
accomplish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective settled securely and unconditionally
- adjective highly skilled
- adjective successfully completed or brought to an end
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Examples
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I will not, however, affirm that Adam, or even Milton, annexed to the term accomplished precisely the idea with which it is associated in the mind of a true modern-bred lady.
manybooks.net 2010
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* Their term accomplished, naught delayed of Destiny's decree.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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"Mission accomplished" is one of the most difficult things to say when your organization depends on working toward a cause, but Love Makes a Family did it.
Done Deal? 2009
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Of course, all that was accomplished is a testimonial to the great commitment of the professionals at NASA.
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Realistically, the only way that it could be accomplished is through a coalition of schools that have London studies.
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In both cases, what has really been accomplished is the birth of a new generation of implacable enemies, and the perpetuation of a state of fear that hard liners on all sides manipulate for their own aggrandizement.
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Of course, all that was accomplished is a testimonial to the great commitment of the professionals at NASA.
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All that has not been accomplished is a direct resullt of those who fail to look ahead and obstruct everything that's proposed.
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The only thing he has accomplished is creating the deepest division among Americans that I can remember.
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All it has accomplished is to help secure Fidel Castro in power (like Ho Chi Minh, another nationalist liberator that we turned into a communist by supporting a criminally repressive regime for the sake of big business).
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