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tested, tried, well-triedadjective
tested and proved useful or correct
«a tested method»
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tested, well-tried, tried and true, time-testedAntonyms:
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tested, time-tested, tried, tried and trueadjective
tested and proved to be reliable
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tested, well-tried, tried and true, time-testedAntonyms:
unreliable, undependable, unproven, unproved
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List of paraphrases for «tried»:
attempted, sought, judged, endeavoured, tempted, prosecuted, deemed, guysfelt, tested, treaty, striven, strived, considered, dabbled
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John Doe:
I tried to object a few times.
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Mustafa Kuko:
If he had ever expressed his ideas, we could have tried to stop it, we would have shut it down.
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Michael Smith:
Instead of saying ‘no, this is the vision for this show, this is what we’re doing. This show is about Michael and Jemele and their opinions and their chemistry, and they’re going to do ‘SportsCenter’ their way.’ Instead of sticking to that vision, we immediately tried to merge two things, it was very frustrating.
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Von Essen:
Idon’t think anybody had anything to be ashamed of that day, or embarrassed, or think that they did anything wrong. I think they wanted to get people up there as fast as they could to help people. That’s what they did, they tried to get anybody out. They just couldn’t get them out fast enough.
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Briton Murray:
It was a tough match. At the end of the fourth set it was really tough, to lose that set 6-4 was hard but I tried to use all my energy at the start of the fifth to get myself pumped up, and the crowd, and thankfully got the break and managed to hang on.
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- approved
- proved
- tested
- certified
- demonstrated
- secure
- staunch
- used
- constant
- dependable
- faithful
- steadfast
- tried-and-true
- true-blue
- trustworthy
- trusty
On this page you’ll find 49 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tried, such as: approved, proved, tested, certified, demonstrated, and secure.
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How to use tried in a sentence
Poor Squinty ran and tried to hide under the straw, for he knew the boy was talking about him.
SQUINTY THE COMICAL PIGRICHARD BARNUM
And the others, not knowing that he had that day repented, sat at their distance and tried to form no conclusion.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUX
There was no one in sight, and he carefully raised the cover a little way and tried to look in.
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYL
Instinctively he tried to hide both pain and anger—it could only increase this distance that was already there.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD
I have tried to show that, given organization, given the will for it, such a world-wide education is possible.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLS
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
WORDS RELATED TO TRIED
- able to hold water
- aboveboard
- acceptable
- authentic
- colorable
- conceivable
- convincing
- credential
- credible
- creditable
- feasible
- imaginable
- impressive
- likely
- logical
- persuasive
- plausible
- possible
- presumable
- presumptive
- probable
- rational
- reasonable
- reliable
- satisfying
- sound
- straight
- supposable
- tenable
- tried
- trustworthy
- trusty
- unquestionable
- up front
- always there
- carrying the load
- certain
- come-through
- constant
- faithful
- good as one’s word
- loyal
- rocklike
- secure
- stable
- staunch
- steadfast
- steady
- sturdy
- sure
- to be counted on
- tried
- tried-and-true
- true
- trustworthy
- trusty
- unfailing
- accomplished
- accustomed
- adept
- been around
- been there
- broken in
- capable
- competent
- cultivated
- dynamite
- expert
- familiar
- having something on the ball
- in the know
- instructed
- knowing one’s stuff
- knowing the score
- mature
- matured
- old
- old hand
- practical
- practiced
- pro
- professional
- qualified
- rounded
- seasoned
- skillful
- sophisticated
- sport
- tested
- the right stuff
- trained
- tried
- versed
- vet
- veteran
- well-versed
- wise
- worldly
- worldly-wise
- affectionate
- allegiant
- ardent
- attached
- behind one
- circumspect
- confiding
- conscientious
- constant
- dependable
- devoted
- dutiful
- dyed-in-the-wool
- enduring
- fast
- firm
- genuine
- hard-core
- honest
- honorable
- incorruptible
- loving
- obedient
- on the level
- patriotic
- resolute
- scrupulous
- sincere
- staunch
- steadfast
- steady
- straight
- string along with
- sure
- tried
- tried-and-true
- true
- true-blue
- trustworthy
- trusty
- truthful
- unchanging
- unswerving
- unwavering
- upright
- veracious
- certain
- dependable
- fail-safe
- faultless
- flawless
- goofproof
- guaranteed
- idiot-proof
- never-failing
- perfect
- reliable
- safe
- sure
- surefire
- tested
- tried
- unassailable
- unerring
- unfailing
- approved
- authorized
- checked
- investigated
- tested
- tried
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Варианты (v1)
Варианты (v2)
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tried [traɪd] прич
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испытанный, проверенный, опробованный
(tested, proven)
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попытавшийся
(trying)
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испробованный
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пробуемый
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try [traɪ] гл
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пытаться, пробовать, стараться, попробовать, попытаться, постараться, стремиться, попытать
(attempt, seek)
- try hard – упорно пытаться
- try so – пробовать так
- try again – попробовать еще раз
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судить
(judge)
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испытывать
- try the spirits – испытывать духов
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опробовать, испробовать, отведать, перепробовать
(test, taste)
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примерить, примерять
(try on)
- try on the dress – примерить платье
- try on clothes – примерять одежду
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норовить
(strive)
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силиться
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Triest сущ
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Триестм
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tries гл
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попытается сделать это
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adjective | ||
испытанный | tried, approved, well-tried, time-tested | |
проверенный | tested, certified, tried, examined, attested, well-tried | |
надежный | reliable, secure, safe, solid, sound, tried | |
верный | right, true, faithful, loyal, correct, tried |
Синонимы (v1)
Синонимы (v2)
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tried прил
- tested
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try гл
- attempt · effort
- seek · go · strive · tend · aspire
- try out · try on
- taste · test · sample · judge · trial
- endeavour · endeavor
adjective
- well-tried, tested
- tested, tried and true, time-tested
verb
- attempt, endeavor, venture, make an effort, exert oneself, strive, do one’s best, do one’s utmost, move heaven and earth, undertake, aim, take it upon oneself, have a go, give it one’s best shot, bend over backwards, bust a gut, do one’s damnedest, pull out all the stops, go all out, knock oneself out, essay
- test, put to the test, sample, taste, inspect, investigate, examine, appraise, evaluate, assess, check out, give something a whirl, test drive
- tax, strain, test, stretch, sap, drain, exhaust, wear out
- adjudicate, consider, hear, adjudge, examine
- adjudicate, judge
- sample, taste, try out
- try on
- strain, stress
- essay, prove, examine, try out, test
- hear
- render
- attempt, essay, seek, assay
Предложения со словом «tried»
But film and video does flatten sculpture, so I tried to imagine a way that animated sculpture could be experienced as such, and also a completely immersive kind of animated sculpture. |
Но фильм и видео сплющивают скульптуру, и я попытался представить такой вариант, чтобы мультипликационная скульптура ощущалась сама по себе, сохраняя при этом эффект присутствия. |
And I tried to imagine and figure out what kind of motion would be present in this place that was so still and so devoid of motion. |
И я пытался представить и выяснить, какое движение вообще может быть здесь, где всё так тихо и неподвижно. |
This study tried to control for all the confounding factors, so it looked at children who were equally intelligent and from the same social-class background, so it seemed as if it was the reading which really helped those children go on and score better on those school tests later in their lives. |
Учёные старались контролировать вмешивающиеся факторы, рассматривая одинаково умных детей из одного социального класса, и, кажется, именно чтение помогло детям справиться лучше и добиться большего и на тестах, и позже в жизни. |
And I tried to explain something about what was on the page. |
И попыталась объяснить что — то из того, что было на той странице. |
And even though you might not have tried that, you all knew. |
И даже если вы не пробовали так делать, вы все знали ответ. |
And the problem is that trying to counter it, lots of governments and social media companies just tried to censor. |
Проблема в том, что в попытках этому противостоять многие правительства и медийные компании полагались лишь на цензуру. |
And he was tried and convicted and in jail for 17-some-odd years. |
Было проведено расследование, и его приговорили к 17 с лишним годам тюрьмы. |
I felt overwhelmed and tried to calm myself. |
Чувства переполняли меня, и я пытался себя успокоить. |
The media even tried to make us afraid of each other by the way they spun the story. |
СМИ пытались даже заставить нас бояться друг друга, искажая факты о случившемся. |
Well, imagine an entire design renaissance that tried to orchestrate the exact and most empowering time-well-spent way for those timelines to happen. |
Представьте полное возрождение дизайна, который попытается создать для нас лучший способ жить так, как мы хотим. |
And I have tried everything to untrain her. |
Я всё перепробовала, чтобы это исправить. |
I think it’s a fantastic strategy, and we know it works, because when people do this — and I’ve tracked a lot of people who have tried this — it expands. |
По — моему, это великолепная стратегия, и она эффективна, потому что, когда люди поступают так, — а я видел многих, кому это удалось, — она развивается. |
We tried these spinning tops, and then in the lab, we stumbled upon this wonder. |
Мы попробовали вращающиеся верхушки, но затем в лаборатории нас ввела в ступор эта загадка. |
I couldn’t explain to her why someone tried to rip off her mother’s hijab when they were grocery shopping, or why a player on an opposing team called her a terrorist and told her to go back where she came from. |
Не смогла объяснить, почему кто — то пытался сорвать хиджаб с головы матери, когда они делали покупки, или почему игрок другой команды назвал её террористкой и сказал убираться туда, откуда она приехала. |
In the early 1980s, the architect Philip Johnson tried to recreate a gracious European plaza in Pittsburgh. |
В начале восьмидесятых годов архитектор Филипп Джонсон пытался воссоздать прекрасную Европейскую площадь в Питтсбурге. |
When they tried to jump in with us, I watched soldiers restrain them. |
Когда они пытались запрыгнуть с нами, я видел, как солдаты препятствовали им. |
So I was in this visual maelstrom just pretty much usually sitting in one place, and I guess just the overload in general — my brain kind of tried to make sense of it. |
И у меня было предостаточно времени, на эту «визуальную карусель», и думаю, тогда и произошли изменения — я пытался понять смысл, и я его понял. |
And I tried really hard to stop it, but I couldn’t, because it had a life of its own. |
Я всеми своими силами пыталась остановить руку, но у меня не получалось, потому что она жила своей жизнью. |
For three years, she subjected the data to all manner of statistical analysis, and no matter what she tried , the results were the same every time: the experiment had been a resounding success. |
Три года она изучала данные при помощи всех методов статистического анализа, и какой бы она не использовала, каждый раз результат был одним и тем же: эксперимент был потрясающе успешным. |
You know, I even tried to get into a skintight superhero suit to reinvent myself. |
Желая открыть в себе новые грани, я даже пытался втиснуться в облегающий костюм супергероя. |
I even tried to reconstruct my identity on the social media like everyone else does. |
Я даже попытался воссоздать свою личность в соцсетях, как это делают все. |
So now, I had been studying the Décima, and after finding out that everyone tried to claim the Décima as their own, that it was invented in their country. |
Так вот, я изучал дециму и узнал, что все претендовали на неё, что якобы она была изобретена в их стране. |
And as we tried to make the right decisions and follow my mother’s wishes, we found that we were depending upon the guidance of nurses. |
Когда мы пытались принимать правильные решения и следовать пожеланиям мамы, мы часто опирались на советы медсестёр. |
And each time I tried to read those books called the feminist classics, I’d get bored, and I really struggled to finish them. |
Всякий раз, пытаясь прочесть книги, считающиеся классикой феминизма, я всякий раз дочитывала с трудом, так как мне становилось скучно. |
I tried to put one up, and no one signed. |
Я пытался создать одну, но никто её не подписал. |
I’ve tried to convince progressive friends that they need to understand what motivates Trump supporters. |
Я пытался убедить прогрессивных товарищей, что им нужно понять мотивацию сторонников Трампа. |
I had a variety of answers that I tried out. |
Я пытался искать ответы. |
But one of them I tried out was, Well, a word is real if you want it to be real. |
Был среди них и такой: Слово является настоящим, если вы хотите, чтобы оно было таковым. |
And I even went to a psychiatrist and tried to get her to prescribe me medicine, and she wouldn’t just because I don’t have schizophrenia, OK. |
Я даже ходила к психиатру и просила выписать мне лекарство, но она не сделала этого просто потому, что у меня не было шизофрении. |
Maybe applied for your driver’s license, tried to do your taxes on your own. |
Может быть, подали на водительские права, постарались сами подсчитать ваши налоги? |
They no longer tried to pursue their interests with warfare. |
Они перестали преследовать свои интересы посредством войн. |
Some states have also tried passing sexting misdemeanor laws but these laws repeat the same problem because they still make consensual sexting illegal. |
Некоторые штаты пытались приравнять секстинг к мелким правонарушениям, но в этих законах — та же самая проблема, потому что они всё ещё считают секстинг по согласию незаконным. |
My mind would suddenly lock into this spinning cycle of terror and no matter how I hard I tried to calm myself down or reason my way out of it, I couldn’t do it. |
Мой разум вдруг замыкался на пугающих мыслях, и не важно, как сильно я пыталась успокоиться или убедить себя это прекратить, мои усилия были тщетны. |
So I tried to walk around him, and as I did that, he stopped me and he was staring at me, and he spit in my face, and he said, Get out of my way you little black bitch, you little Paki bitch, go back home where you came from. |
Я попыталась обойти его, но он остановил меня, пристально посмотрел мне в глаза и плюнул мне в лицо, сказав: Убирайся с дороги, маленькая чёрная дрянь, пакистанская сучка, — убирайся туда, откуда приехала. |
They even tried to kidnap me at one point. |
Однажды меня даже пытались похитить. |
She tried to do everything right. |
Она старалась всё делать правильно. |
And when she tried to go to her family for help, they said, Well, you got to go back and be a better wife. |
А обратившись к своей семье за помощью, она услышала: Возвращайся к мужу и будь хорошей женой. |
I’ve tried to rise above it, I’ve tried to get in the trenches, but mostly I would scroll through these social media platforms with one eye partially closed, trying not to see it, but you can’t make a cucumber out of a pickle. |
Я пыталась быть выше этого, пыталась укрыться от этого, но чаще всего я просматривала ленты соцсетей в полглаза, пытаясь не замечать всё это, но невозможно делать вид, что тебе всё равно. |
These ideas went largely unchanged for several millennia until the 1880s, when neurologists tried to modernize the theory of hysteria. |
Эти суждения не изменялись тысячелетиями вплоть до 1880 — х годов, когда неврологи начали изучать истерию. |
But along with that vision, he also tried to give us — and most people don’t know this, either — he tried to give us a partner in the form of our fiercest Cold War rival, the Soviet Union. |
И вместе с ней он попытался дать нам — хотя многие даже не представляют этого — попытался дать нам в виде партнёра ни кого иного, как нашего злейшего врага по Холодной войне — Советский Союз. |
And so I set out to do the only rational thing that someone would do in such a circumstance: I quit my job and tried to build this audacious dream, a reinvented, rethought religious life which we called IKAR, which means the essence or the heart of the matter. |
И поэтому я cделала единственную здравую вещь, которую можно предпринять в такой ситуации: я уволилась и попыталась осуществить эту отчаянную мечту о новой, заново осмысленной религиозной жизни, которую мы называем IKAR, что означает квинтэссенция или суть проблемы. |
We tried Prozac as well, and that had no effect. |
Мы пробовали Прозак, но безрезультатно. |
I tried to make sense of it all, how becoming one with each other had made us more ourselves, our soul selves, and how by facing and opening to the pain of our past, we’d finally been delivered to each other, and how by stepping out of time, we would now be connected forever. |
Я пыталась разобраться, как, становясь едиными друг с другом, мы стали в большей степени самими собой, обрели свои настоящие души, и как, сталкиваясь с болью нашего прошлого и открываясь ему, мы наконец — то обрели друг друга, и как, выйдя за пределы времени, мы навсегда соединились. |
More recently, we’ve tried therapy dogs, wilderness retreats — many things which may temporarily relieve stress, but which don’t actually eliminate PTSD symptoms over the long term. |
Потом мы пробовали канистерапию, лечение в природных условиях — много всего, что может на время облегчить стресс, но не излечивает симптомы ПТСР в долгосрочной перспективе. |
And I tried my utmost to inspire others to do so as well. |
Я делала всё возможное, чтобы вдохновлять других на успех. |
Some argue that today our schools are now more segregated than they ever were before we tried to desegregate them in the first place. |
Некоторые считают, что сегодня уровень сегрегации намного выше, чем тогда, когда мы пытались от неё избавиться. |
For years, I tried desperately to cultivate in my kids a love of reading. |
Годами я отчаянно пыталась привить моим детям любовь к чтению. |
Apple has tried to make surveillance as difficult as possible for governments and any other actors. |
Apple попытались сделать слежку невозможной для правительств и иных структур. |
I realized that if I tried to fix it, I would miss it. |
Я поняла, что если попытаюсь что — то исправить, я упущу главное. |
I tried to right wrongs through power and aggression. |
Я пытался бороться со злом с помощью силы и агрессии. |
He had tried to recover explosives from that shell. |
Он хотел вытащить взрывчатку из того снаряда. |
It can be something you’ve never tried before. |
Это может быть что — то, чего вы никогда не делали. |
Ender tried to imagine what was happening inside the planet. |
Эндер попытался представить, что происходит сейчас внутри планеты. |
His seat straps tried to slice him like an egg. |
Привязные ремни попытались разрезать его на ломтики, словно яйцо. |
He tried to glance behind him into the cabin. |
Попытался оглянуться, посмотреть, что делается в салоне. |
He had often tried to analyze his feelings toward Alviti. |
Он часто пытался анализировать свои чувства по отношению к Элвину. |
Lady at the gate tried to get me to pay. |
Девушка на входе пыталась заставить меня заплатить за билет. |
The last school tried to channel that aggression into fencing. |
В последней школе пытались использовать эту агрессию в фехтовании. |
Right before the killer tried to abscond with his corpse. |
Перед тем как убийца пытался скрыться с телом |
Her stomach tried to tie itself into a knot. |
Внутри у нее все будто в тугой узел скрутилось. |
1. tried
adjective. [‘ˈtraɪd’] tested and proved to be reliable.
Synonyms
- dependable
- tried and true
- tested
- reliable
Antonyms
- unreliable
- untrustworthy
- unsound
- unsteady
Rhymes with Tried
- oversupplied
- subdivide
- nationwide
- misapplied
- europewide
- worldwide
- westside
- stateside
- mcbryde
- mcbride
- malahide
- macbride
- complied
- coincide
- alongside
- supplied
- subside
- replied
- provide
- preside
- pool-side
- misguide
- liquide
- implied
- decried
- confide
- astride
- upside
- untied
- stride
How do you spell tried? Is it tryed ?
A common misspelling of tried is tryed
Sentences with tried
1. Verb, past participle
There are a few approaches to this internal wash that can be tried.
2. Adjective
Though there are thousands of types of shrubs, gardeners keep coming back to some tried and true favorites.
Quotes about tried
1. The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It’s not change, and it’s not hope.
— Rush Limbaugh
2. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
— Albert Einstein
3. The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.
— Henry Chadwick
2. well-tried
adjective. tested and proved useful or correct.
Synonyms
- tried
- tested
- proved
Antonyms
- undependable
- unreliable
- on trial
- unproven
3. tried
adjective. [‘ˈtraɪd’] tested and proved useful or correct.
Synonyms
- tested
- proved
- well-tried
Antonyms
- uncertain
- temperamental
- untrusty
- erratic
Thesaurus
Synonyms of tried
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as in reliable
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verb
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as in tested
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as in attempted
- as in reliable
- as in tested
- as in attempted
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tried
1 of 2
adjective
Definition of tried
as in reliable
worthy of one’s trust
a tried method for catching sport fish
Synonyms & Similar Words
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reliable
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responsible
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good
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true
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safe
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steady
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sure
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solid
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secure
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loyal
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trusty
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dependable
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trustworthy
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devoted
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calculable
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tried—and—true
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constant
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strong
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faithful
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trustable
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proven
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confirmed
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steadfast
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staunch
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honest
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fast
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stanch
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telling
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validated
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sincere
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sound
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effective
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valid
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verified
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infallible
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firm
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attested
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true—blue
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single—minded
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authenticated
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unerring
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faultless
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impeccable
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guiltless
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unimpeachable
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irreproachable
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blameless
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unquestionable
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bedrock
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inerrant
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
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uncertain
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unreliable
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unsafe
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false
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treacherous
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untrustworthy
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unfaithful
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suspect
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untrue
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disloyal
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lying
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problematic
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doubtful
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undependable
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questionable
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dishonest
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dodgy
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fickle
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faithless
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perfidious
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traitorous
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dubious
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deceitful
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uncertain
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debatable
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shaky
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problematical
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inconstant
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mendacious
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untruthful
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risky
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shady
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fishy
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hazardous
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untried
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disputable
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recreant
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unsound
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unconfirmed
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doubtable
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uncertain
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unreliable
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unsafe
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false
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treacherous
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untrustworthy
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unfaithful
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suspect
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untrue
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disloyal
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lying
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problematic
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doubtful
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undependable
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questionable
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dishonest
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dodgy
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fickle
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faithless
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perfidious
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traitorous
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dubious
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deceitful
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uncertain
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debatable
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shaky
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problematical
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inconstant
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mendacious
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untruthful
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risky
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shady
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fishy
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hazardous
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untried
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disputable
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recreant
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unsound
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unconfirmed
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doubtable
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tried
2 of 2
verb
past tense of try
1
as in tested
to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress
you’re trying my patience
Synonyms & Similar Words
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tested
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stretched
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pushed
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strained
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got (to)
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bothered
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taxed
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annoyed
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demanded
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pressured
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irritated
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importuned
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pressed
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harassed
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pained
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pestered
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exacted
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aggravated
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exasperated
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irked
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peeved
-
riled
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vexed
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grated
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gnawed (at)
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harried
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nettled
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agitated
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galled
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hassled
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spited
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vext
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as in attempted
to make an effort to do
try to unlock the door will try to call later tonight
Synonyms & Similar Words
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attempted
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sought
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hoped
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strived
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endeavored
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wrought
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essayed
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struggled
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worked
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strove
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assayed
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shot for
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shot at
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fought
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undertook
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had a go at
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aimed
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toiled
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tried one’s hand (at)
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troubled
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aspired
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assumed
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strained
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took up
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
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dropped
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quit
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gave up
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quitted
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dropped
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quit
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gave up
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quitted
Thesaurus Entries Near tried
tridents
tried
tried-and-true
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