Definition of attainment

"attainment" in the noun sense

1. attainment

the act of achieving an aim

"the attainment of independence"

2. attainment

arrival at a new stage

"his attainment of puberty was delayed by malnutrition"

3. skill, accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, attainment

an ability that has been acquired by training

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Quotations for attainment

The really good is of difficult attainment. [ Law Proverb ]

Government is an art above the attainment of an ordinary genius. [ South ]

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. [ Hume ]

The attainment of our greatest desires is often the source of our greatest sorrows.

Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here? [ Chapin ]

It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired places some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon. [ Lowell ]

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made man: teach, or preach, or labour as you will, everlasting difference is set between one man's capacity and another's; and this God-given supremacy is the priceless thing, always just as rare in the world at one time as another.... And nearly the best thing that men can generally do is to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the discovery of this: learning to know gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds of our own charcoal. [ John Ruskin ]

attainment in Scrabble®

The word attainment is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters attainment:

ATTAINMENT
(135)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

amentia, animate

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word attainment

ATTAINMENT
(135)
ATTAINMENT
(117)
ATTAINMENT
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ATTAINMENT
(78)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In attainment

ATTAINMENT
(135)
ATTAINMENT
(117)
ATTAINMENT
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AMENTIA
(86 = 36 + 50)
ANIMATE
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AMENTIA
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AMENTIA
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ATTAINMENT
(78)
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AMENTIA
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AMENTIA
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AMENTIA
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AMENTIA
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AMENTIA
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AMENTIA
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ATTAINMENT
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MANIA
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ANEMIA
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MANIA
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attainment in Words With Friends™

The word attainment is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters attainment:

ATTAINMENT
(225)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

amentia, animate

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word attainment

ATTAINMENT
(225)
ATTAINMENT
(189)
ATTAINMENT
(138)
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(102)
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(81)
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(68)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In attainment

ATTAINMENT
(225)
ATTAINMENT
(189)
ATTAINMENT
(138)
ANIMATE
(104 = 69 + 35)
AMENTIA
(104 = 69 + 35)
ATTAINMENT
(102)
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AMENTIA
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AMENTIA
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ATTAINMENT
(81)
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AMENTIA
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AMENTIA
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TINMEN
(69)
TINMAN
(69)
ATTAINMENT
(68)
TITMAN
(66)
TITMEN
(66)
AMENTIA
(65 = 30 + 35)
ANIMATE
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ATTAINMENT
(64)
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(64)
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(63)
AMENTIA
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ATTAINMENT
(60)
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(60)
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(60)
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(60)
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TINMAN
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MANNA
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(54)
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(54)
MITTEN
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AMENTIA
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TINMEN
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AMENT
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MANE
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MANNA
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Words within the letters of attainment

2 letter words in attainment (13 words)

3 letter words in attainment (19 words)

5 letter words in attainment (12 words)

7 letter words in attainment (2 words)

8 letter words in attainment (1 word)

10 letter words in attainment (1 word)

attainment + 1 blank (1 word)

attainment + 2 blanks (2 words)

Words containing the sequence attainment

Words that start with attainment (2 words)

Words with attainment in them (3 words)

Words that end with attainment (4 words)

Word Growth involving attainment

Shorter words in attainment

ai attain

at attain

in attain

ta attain

en men

me men

Longer words containing attainment

attainments nonattainments

attainments unattainments

nonattainment nonattainments

reattainment

unattainment unattainments