Accomplished

Definition: Accomplished

Accomplished

Adjective

1. Highly skilled; "an accomplished pianist"; "a complete musician".

2. Successfully completed or brought to an end; "his mission accomplished he took a vacation"; "the completed project"; "the joy of a realized ambition overcame him".

3. Settled securely and unconditionally; "that smoking causes health problems is an accomplished fact".

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Date "accomplished" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Accomplished

Difficulty

Accomplished with difficulty; hard-fought, hard-earned.

Facility

Adjective: easy, facile; feasible; (practicable); easily managed, easily accomplished; within reach, accessible, easy of access, for the million, open to.

Knowledge

Erudite, instructed, leaned, lettered, educated; well conned, well informed, well read, well grounded, well educated; enlightened, shrewd, savant, blue, bookish, scholastic, solid, profound, deep-read, book-learned; accomplished; (skillful); omniscient; self-taught.

Skill

Adjective: skillful, dexterous, adroit, expert, apt, handy, quick, deft, ready, gain; slick, smart; (active); proficient, good at, up to, at home in, master of, a good hand at, au fait, thoroughbred, masterly, crack, accomplished; conversant; (knowing).

Crosswords: Accomplished

Do you realize in the entire history of western civilization no one has successfully accomplished the Roommate Switch (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Halfway around the world, a great athlete has just accomplished an amazing feat (Sports Night; writing credit: Tom Brady; Kevin Falls)

A movement is accomplished in six stages (Chapter 24; performing artist: Pink Floyd)

Mission Accomplished (1943)

The Accomplished Mrs. Thompson (1914)

How Father Accomplished His Work (1912)

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Books

• Accomplished Error (reference)

• Accomplished in All Departments of Art: Hammatt Billings of Boston, 1818-1874 (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book) (reference)

• Admission Accomplished : The Lesbian Nation Years, 1970-75 (High Risk Books) (reference)

• Dick Tiger: The Life & Times of Africa's Most Accomplished World Boxing Champion (reference)

• Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three Accomplished Women (reference)

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Periodicals

• Accomplished Teachers (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Mission Accomplished - Colorado Avalanche 2001 Stanley Cup Champions (reference)

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Music

• Mission: Accomplished (reference)

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A jet injector is a device that uses gaseous pressure to propel drugs or vaccines through the outer layers of the skin, and into the underlying subcutaneous tissues. This is accomplished without the use of needles. Credit: CDC.

Henry Mitchell Assistant in the Coast and Geodetic Survey Accomplished hydrographer and physical oceanographer Pioneered many techniques used in studying circulation of estuarine environments. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Those who accomplished the most in the salvaging operations on the S-4. They are (from left to right, in front): Saunders, who was in charge of the raising of the sunken submarine; Captain Ernest J. King; and Lieutenant Henry Hartley, Commanding Officer of USS Falcon (ASR-2). Photographed circa March 1928. Credit: NAVY.

Packing carrots into boxes. Icing is accomplished by dropping shaved ice from chute into crate. Elsa, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

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It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former Exoduses of nations and crusades. (reference)

No charge, facility or restriction shall depend directly or indirectly on the ownership or on the nationality of the ship or other means of transport on which any part of the through journey has been, or is to be, accomplished. (reference)

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The victory accomplished, Pearl returned quietly to her mother, and looked up, smiling, into her face

She had accomplished a double progress towards the light, and towards distress

The mystery of esthetic like that of material creation is accomplished.

It certainly is fair to look at that class by whose labor the works which distinguish this generation are accomplished.

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Health

There is a latent, asymptomatic phase to the disease during which screening can be accomplished. (references)

Most biological oxidations are accomplished by the removal of a pair of hydrogen atoms (dehydrogenation) from a molecule. (references)

Adenovirus typing is usually accomplished by hemagglutination-inhibition and/or neutralization with type-specific antisera. (references)

Business

Over the past decade, Taiwan has accomplished a complete role reversal on copyrights. (references)

This was accomplished in July when the alliance, led by President Bush, issued the London Declaration on a transformed NATO. (references)

These goals would be accomplished through waste reduction, reuse, recycling, energy resource recovery, incineration, and landfill disposal of solid wastes. (references)

Children

Monaco

The Government mandated that public buildings provide access for persons with disabilities, and this goal largely has been accomplished. (references)

Civil Liberties

Moldova

The final recognition or rejection is accomplished by Government decree, signed by the Prime Minister and printed in the Official Gazette. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

This can be accomplished through the stock market. (references)

Human Rights

Peru

Military authorities must turn over persons they detain to the police within 24 hours; in remote areas, this must be accomplished as soon as practicable. (references)

Mexico

Of those states with the largest numbers of indigenous prisoners, the CNDH reviewed 2,222 cases in Oaxaca, and recommended 407 releases, of which 296 had been accomplished by the end of 1998; 1,219 cases in Veracruz, with 331 recommendations for release and 245 releases; and 639 cases in Puebla, with 157 releases recommended and 61 releases. (references)

Indigenous People

India

Special courts to hear complaints of atrocities committed against tribal people were to have been established under the Protection of Civil Rights Act, but this never was accomplished. (references)

Political Economy

Pakistan

The creation of a separate Muslim nation was accomplished largely through the efforts of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's first Governor General. (references)

Canada

Although renewed federal social spending may halt the trend toward devolution, the shift in powers to the provinces already accomplished is unlikely to be undone in the short term. (references)

Ecuador

The quasi-constitutional removal of President Bucaram from office by Congress in February 1997 was accomplished after peaceful protests forced him from the Presidential Palace and was later approved in a nationwide referendum. (references)

Trade

Cote D'ivoire

Member countries were allowed to "phase-out" their inter-community tariffs, however little has been accomplished to date. (references)

Finland

Financial consolidation has been accomplished by reducing personnel, closing branch offices and introducing modern banking technology. (references)

Malaysia

All imported consumer goods must identify the importing agent, typically accomplished by affixing a label after goods have cleared customs. (references)

Travel

Argentina

Travel outside greater Buenos Aires can be accomplished by train, bus, or car, although air travel is recommended for many trips to the provinces because of the distances involved. (references)

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstani businessmen are generally less direct than American businessmen, and what can be accomplished in a few meetings in the U.S. might take more in Kazakhstan, requiring patience and discipline on the part of the U.S. businessmen. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "accomplished": accomplished dancer ♦ accomplished fact ♦ an accomplished liar ♦ become accomplished. Additional references.

Afrikaans

ervare (adept, experienced, expert), begaaf (gifted, talented). (various references)

Albanian

aftë (able, accomplishment, aptitude, capable, disposition, gifted, talent, talented), i zoti (able, adroit, capable, delicate, dexterous, dextrous, efficient, expert, fool, natty, neat, neat-handed, proficient, skilful, skillful), i përkryer (absolute, blithering, consummate, perfect, proper, top-hole, watertight), i kualifikuar (professional, regular, skilled). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منجز (achieved, carried out, completed, done, executed, executor, finished, implementer), ‏متمم (complemented, complete, concluded, consummated, finished), ‏ضليع (erudite, thorough), ‏بارع (able, adroit, artful, bright, brilliant, capable, clever, crafty, cunning, dexterous, dextrous, educated, fancy, fiend, foxy, handsome, handy, ingenious, intelligent, masterful, masterly, neat, nice, pretty, skilful, skilled, skillful, smart, subtle, superior, sweet, very beautiful, witty, workmanlike, workmanly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свършен (complete, done, played out), талантлив (able, talented), културен (cultural, cultured, highbrow, polite), квалифициран (fit, fledged, graduate, regular, skilled, trained), осъществен (incarnate), образован (cultivated, cultured, educated, informed, lettered, literate), извършен (done), изискан (classic, discerning, distinguished, elegant, exact, exquisite, gracious, neat, nice, polished, polite, precise, recherche, refined, tasteful, urbane, well-rounded), добре подготвен (well grounded). (various references)

Chinese 

成功 (succeed, Succeeded, succeeding, success, successful), 彧 (elegant), 彥 (elegant). (various references)

Czech

vynikající (amazing, beautiful, champion, chance, delicious, egregious, eminent, excellent, exquisite, fine, magnificent, notable, outstanding, preeminent, prize, prominent, star, sterling, superlative, wonderful), všestrannì vzdìlaný, skvìlý (admirable, bright, brilliant, dashing, distinguished, excellent, fine, glorious, grand, palmy, proud, splendid, swell, tiptop, wonderful), kultivovaný (civilized, cultivated, cultured, gracious, polite, sophisticated), hotový (complete, done, finished, oft-shelf, prepared, ready, ready made, regular, veritable), dokonalý (cast iron, consummate, ideal, immaculate, impeccable, perfect, proficient, thorough, unqualified, utter, very). (various references)

Danish

understoettelsen ved brydningsfronten udfoeres med hydrauliske donkrafte, som udgoer et bevaegeligt eller flytbart system af understoettelsesbukke (face support is accomplished with hydraulic chocks known as powered support chocks), hvis forsoegene paa at loesne boreroeret mislykkes,skrues borestrengen af saa naer som muligt ved det sted,den sidder fast,saaledes at fiskearbejdet kan begynde;dette sker almindeligvis ved,at man ved hjaelp af spraengstof stoeder til boreroeret ved borer (if attempts to free the pipe fail, so that fishing operations can begin;this is generally accomplished by bump-shooting the pipe at the first tool joint above the free point, the string is unscrewed as near the stuck point as possible), grovkornsgloedning foretages ved hoej temperatur i tilstraekkelig lang tid (annealing for grain growth is accomplished by heating to an elevated temperature for a sufficiently long period), fortaetning af afgangsdampfen fra dampturbinen sker i en roervarmeveksler, en saakaldt overfladekondensator (condensation of exhaust steam from the steam turbine electric generator is accomplished by the use of a shell-and-tube heat exchanger known as a surf=ce condenser), fjernbetjening fra det elektriske borepanel sker ved at der sendes en elektrisk impuls fra det elektriske borepanel til en luftsolenoideventil,der er anbragt i en eksplosionssikker boks oven paa det hydrauliske kontrolarrangement (remote operation from the Electric Driller's Panel is accomplished by sending an electric signal from the Electric Driller's Panel to an air solenoid valve located in an explosion-proof box on the Hydraulic Control Manifold), en boring udfoeres normalt under et hydrostatisk tryk,som er stoerre end formationstrykket (drilling is usually accomplished with the imposition of a positive hydrostatic head larger than the formation pressure), brodannelse (and electron bombardment, bridging, bridging of hole, cross-linking, doming, the establishing of chemical links between the molecular chains in polymers.It can be accomplished by chemical reaction, vulcanization). (various references)

Dutch

zaakkundig (able, adept, competent, experienced, expert), welopgevoed, volleerd, voldongen, vakkundig (able, competent), uitgemaakt, talentvol (gifted, talented), getalenteerd (talented), geoefend (adept, experienced, expert, practised, skilful, skilled, skillful), ervaren (adept, experienced, expert, go through, live to see), deskundig (able, adept, competent, experienced, expert), competent (able, competent), bevoegd (able, competent), beschaafd (civilized, courteous, gentlemanlike, ladylike, polite, well-mannered), begaafd (gifted, talented). (various references)

Faeroese

serkønur (able, competent), málførur (able, competent), gávuríkur (talented). (various references)

Finnish

pätevä (able, capable, competent, qualified, tenable, valid), kokenut (adept, experienced, expert). (various references)

French

accompli. (various references)

Frisian

betûft (able, capable, talented). (various references)

German

vollbracht, ausgeführt (achieved, executed, performed). (various references)

Greek 

μορφωμένοσ (cultured, educated, well read), τέλειοσ (arrant, complete, consummate, finished, outright, perfect, precious, stark, straight out), τελειωμένοσ (complete). (various references)

Hawaiian

aftë (able, accomplishment, aptitude, capable, disposition, gifted, talent, talented). (various references)

Hebrew 

מו�'מר (complete, ended, finished). (various references)

Hungarian

tökéletes (absolute, beyond all praise, can be hardly improved on, complete, consummate, exquisite, finished, impeccable, perfect, pukka, rank, regular, thorough, utter, very), rutinos (groovy), művelt (cultivated, erudite, learned). (various references)

Indonesian

pandai (clear-headed), mahir (adept). (various references)

Italian

compiuto (out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

博雅 (extensive knowledge, well-informed). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ばくが (extensive knowledge, malt, well-informed), はくが (extensive knowledge, well-informed). (various references)

Korean 

달성되�". (various references)

Pig Latin

accomplisheday.(various references)

Polish

doświadczony (adept, experienced, expert). (various references)

Portuguese

acabado (crowned, done, finished, out, thoroughgoing, thoroughpaced), talentoso (able, clever, gifted, talented), resoluto (decisive, energetic, game, plucky, purposive, resolute, stalwart, stark, steadfast, stiff, stout, sturdy, unbending, unhesitating, unwavering), realizado (fulfilled, realized), rígido (dour, frigid, ironclad, relentless, rigid, set, severe, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, unbending, uncomplying), perfeito (absolute, bijou, classic, classical, clean, close, consummate, crowned, exact, finished, flawless, handsome, impeccable, masterly, perfect, precious, sculpturesque, sound, thorough, thoroughpaced, throughly, unalloyed, undeniable, unexceptionable, unmitigated), forte (acute, bold, bouncing, brawny, cogent, decuman, firm, forceful, forcible, fort, forte, fortress, full-blooded, hale, hard, heavy, hefty, high, high-hearted, intense, intensive, keen, loud, lusty, manly, masculine, masterful, mighty, nappy, penetrating, pithy, potent, presidio, racy, red-blooded, robust, salt, sanguineous, seaworthy, sharp, sinewy, snorting, solid, stalwart, stark, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, swingeing, telling, tough, two-fisted, unfailing, vehement, venturous, vigorous, wakeless, wholesome), excelente (champion, choice, classic, classical, crack-a-jack, distinctive, excellent, fine, first-class, first-rate, golden, good, great, magnificent, palmary, splendiferous, standout, super, superior, tiptop, top-hole, topping, undeniable), efetuado, concluído (complete, done, made). (various references)

Romanian

terminat (all over, complete, done, finished, kaput), realizat, perfect (a1, absolute, all right, blameless, classic, consummate, faultless, flawless, good enough, okay, out and out, perfect, perfectly, pure, quite so, right-down, ripe, that's fine, thorough, thoroughly, thoroughpaced, tiptop, total, unimpeachable), desãvârşit (absolute, blank, complete, consummate, faultless, finished, full-fledged, out and out, perfect, perfectly, pure, right-down, stark, thorough, thoroughpaced), binecrescut (genteel, gentle, gentleman, gentlemanlike, well bred, well educated), îndeplinit. (various references)

Russian 

культурный (civilized, cultivated, cultural, cultured), выполнять совершенный, законченный (complete, consummate, crowned, finished, perfect, thorough-paced), изысканный (courtly, dainty, distingue, exquisite, nice, precious, recherche, refined, soigne, tony 1, urbane, well spoken). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vičan (adept, clever, experienced, fit, knacky, proficient, skilled, skillful), vešt (able, adept, adroit, artful, clever, cunning, daedal, deft, dexterous, habile, handy, knacky, knowing, proficient, sciential, skilled, skillful, slick, subtle, tall). (various references)

Spanish

talentoso (gifted, ingenious, talented), dotado (blessed, blest, gifted, talented), cumplido (accomplish, complete, compliment, courteous, discharged, kept), consumado (consumated, consummate, finished, out and out, perfect, rightdown, spent). (various references)

Swedish

skicklig (able, ably, adept, adroit, be cunning, clever, deft, dexterous, dextrous, expert, fine, handsome, ingenious, knacky, knowing, neat, neat-handed, proficient, skilful, skilled, skillful), presterade, kunnig (able, expert, knacky, knowing, knowledgeable, proficient, skilful, skillful, versed), kompetent (able, cognizant, competent, qualified), fulländad (consummate, essential, finished, ideal). (various references)

Turkish

yapılmış (done, made, made of), tam (absolute, according to cocker, accurate, all out, at the time, bang, bang on, blank, clear, complete, consummate, correct, dead, desperately, downright, due, engrained, entire, even, exact, exactly, factual, full, full complement, fully, holo-, implicit, ingrained, intact, integral, intimate, just, literal, mathematical, on time, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plunk, precise, precisely, prize, prompt, proper, punctual, rank, right, rightdown, root and branch, round, sharp, sheer, simple, slap bang, slick, solid, spot-on, Square, stark, straight, strict, the very, thorough, thoroughgoing, to a t, true, trueborn, unalloyed, unambiguous, unmitigated, unredeemed, unreserved, utter, very, whole), mükemmel (all around, alpha plus, ambrosial, bang up, banner, beyond praise, bully, capital, champion, classic, classical, classy, commanding, complete, consummate, cool, copybook, Dandy, dreamy, elegant, excellent, famous, famously, faultless, fine, finished, first class, great, immense, jolly good, no mean, par excellence, perfect, ripping, scrumptious, slap up, smashing, smooth, solid, sovereign, spiffing, spiffy, splendid, splendiferous, super, superb, superlative, that takes the cake, the dandy, thorough, thoroughgoing, tiptop, to a turn, to the nines, topping, triumphant, unique), kusursuz (beyond reproach, blameless, capital, clean, correct, excellent, faultless, final, flawless, free from taint, immaculate, impeccable, indefectible, irreproachable, perfect, precise, root and branch, taintless, the dandy, the perfect, thorough, thoroughgoing, unblemished, unimpeachable), başarılmış, başarılı (going, going far, prosperous, successful, thriving, victorious, well done). (various references)

Turkmen 

ьstьnlikli. (various references)

Ukrainian

культурний (arable, civilized, cultivated, cultural, cultured, tame), кваліфікований (efficient, experienced, skilled), вправний (able, adroit, artful, canny, capable, clever, crafty, cunning, deft, good, handy, jemmy, neat, neat-handed, nifty, practised, proficient), вихований (civilized, educated, gentlemanlike, nice, well-conditioned, well-conducted), вишуканий (ambitious, becoming, chic, choice, courtly, dainty, delicate, distinguished, dressmaker, exquisite, fine, foppish, kid glove, minion, nice, nutty, polished, polite, precious, quaint, recherche, trim, way up), виконаний, освічений (cultured, educated, enlightened, informed, literate, luminous), заінчений, завершений (crowned, orbicular, rounded), досконалий (complete, ideal, in depth, perfect, precious), досвідчений (adept, experienced, expert, old, perite, proficient, salted, skilled, sophisticate, sophisticated, versed, veteran), довершений (consummate). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xong xuôi, trọn vẹn được giáo dục kỹ lưỡng, hoạ (accomplishment), có đầy đủ t� i năng; ho� n hảo, đã l� m xong, đã ho� n th� nh (finished). (various references)

artificiosus, sollertia. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Accomplished" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accomplised, acomplished. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: accomplish.

-3 letters: chamoised, chemicals, complices, halidomes, melodicas, misplaced, pedocalic.

-4 letters: alchemic, alopecic, asphodel, caliches, calicoes, camisole, camphols, cephalic, chalcids, chaliced, chalices, cheloids, chemical, coalshed, cochleas, compiled, compiles, complice, complied, complies, cosmical, decimals, declaims, demolish, depolish, diplomas, displace, ecocidal, episomal, halidome, halidoms, haploids, helipads, hemiolas, impleads, implodes, malposed, medicals, melodias, melodica, midspace, misplace, misplead.

+4 letters: cyclophosphamide.

+5 letters: cyclophosphamides.