attain
attain is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
- transitive verb. To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire.
- transitive verb. To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
- transitive verb. To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
- transitive verb. To overtake.
- transitive verb. To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
- intransitive verb. To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.
- intransitive verb. To come or arrive, by an effort of mind.
- noun. Attainment.
- verb. reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
"The thermometer hit 100 degrees"
"This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour"
- verb. reach a destination, either real or abstract
"We hit Detroit by noon"
"The water reached the doorstep"
- verb. find unexpectedly
"the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"
"she struck a goldmine"
- verb. to gain with effort
"she achieved her goal despite setbacks"
Synonyms
hit, reach, gain, make, discover, strike, accomplish, achieve
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in attain:
Common word forms
attains, attained, attainer, attaining, attainable, attainment
Words from these letters
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