ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Graduated

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Graduated is an adjective meaning Having a university degree; having completed training.

Meaning

Having a university degree; having completed training.

More Meanings

  1. Marked with graduations.
  2. Arranged by grade, level, or degree.
  3. (taxation) Increasing in rate with the taxable base.
  4. (ornithology) Of a tail, having successively longer feathers towards the middle.
  5. simple past and past participle of graduate
  6. (obsolete) In steps.

Example Sentences

The graduated slope of the Upper Test Valley on the east, and its more abrupt embankment on the west, under which the present stream tends to cling, point clearly to river action.

Synonyms for graduated

Depending on context, synonyms include gradual, regressive, gradatory, gradational, proportional, progressive.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include progressive, proportional, regressive, gradational, gradual, gradatory.

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