ATTAINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does attained mean? 

• ATTAINED (adjective)
  The adjective ATTAINED has 1 sense:

1. achieved or reached

  Familiarity information: ATTAINED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATTAINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Achieved or reached

Context example:

the actual attained achievement test score

Similar:

earned (gained or acquired; especially through merit or as a result of effort or action)

 Context examples 

However, I have no doubt that with a little delicacy and finesse the end may be attained.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If ever Wolf Larsen attained the summit of living, he attained it then.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At length, my restlessness attained to such a pitch, that I hurried on my clothes, and went downstairs.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Additional diversity is attained by junctional diversity, resulting from the random additional of nucleotides by terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase, and by somatic hypermutation, which occurs during B cell maturation in the spleen and lymph nodes.

(Immunoglobulin Heavy Locus, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)

A goal or aim to be accomplished or attained.

(Objective, NCI Thesaurus)

There was a captain in the Guards who attained considerable social success by doing it for a small wager.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For a few moments it seemed that their object would be attained without danger, so swift and so silent had been their movements.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Is it possible that even now, when I give you these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How often I stopped with the intention of returning, and yet every time my pride conquered my fear, and sent me on again until my object should be attained.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)