ACCOMPLISHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accomplished mean? 

• ACCOMPLISHED (adjective)
  The adjective ACCOMPLISHED has 3 senses:

1. highly skilled

2. successfully completed or brought to an end

3. settled securely and unconditionally

  Familiarity information: ACCOMPLISHED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCOMPLISHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Highly skilled

Synonyms:

accomplished; complete

Context example:

a complete musician

Similar:

skilled (having or showing or requiring special skill)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Successfully completed or brought to an end

Synonyms:

accomplished; completed; realised; realized

Context example:

the joy of a realized ambition overcame him

Similar:

complete (having every necessary or normal part or component or step)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Settled securely and unconditionally

Synonyms:

accomplished; effected; established

Context example:

that smoking causes health problems is an accomplished fact

Similar:

settled (established or decided beyond dispute or doubt)

 Context examples 

This accomplished, he pried gently and carefully, loosening the jaws a bit at a time, while Matt, a bit at a time, extricated White Fang's mangled neck.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I was right, and Laurie has found the beautiful, accomplished girl who will become his home better than clumsy old Jo, and be a pride, not a torment to him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“If you please, sir,” I said, when we had accomplished about the same distance as before, “is it far?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The feat was accomplished by accessing two untapped streams of satellite data.

(New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor, NSF)

The discovery, which was accomplished by comparing data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, has enabled the researchers to uncover dozens of new blazar candidates.

(WISE, Fermi Missions Reveal a Surprising Blazar Connection, NASA)

Then, with our mission accomplished and possessing a fuller knowledge of the secrets of Maple White Land, we should turn our whole thoughts to the vital problem of our escape and return.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Consequently, an overall reduction in chronic inflammation and autoimmune reactions are accomplished.

(Clocortolone Pivalate, NCI Thesaurus)

CID is accomplished by selecting an ion of interest with the mass analyzer and then subjecting that ion to collisions with neutral atoms or molecules.

(Collision-Induced Dissociation, NCI Thesaurus)

It was only an inch to lean, and it was accomplished without volition on her part.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Mitotic cell cycle progression is accomplished through a reproducible sequence of events, DNA replication (S phase) and mitosis (M phase) separated temporally by gaps known as G1 and G2 phases.

(Cell Cycle Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)