Synonyms for tried
traɪdtried

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1. tested, tried, well-triedadjective

   tested and proved useful or correct

   "a tested method"

   Synonyms:
   tested, well-tried, tried and true, time-tested

   Antonyms:
   unproved, unreliable, undependable, unproven

2. tested, time-tested, tried, tried and trueadjective

   tested and proved to be reliable

   Synonyms:
   tested, well-tried, tried and true, time-tested

   Antonyms:
   unreliable, undependable, unproven, unproved

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1. List of paraphrases for "tried":

   attempted, sought, judged, endeavoured, tempted, prosecuted, deemed, guysfelt, tested, treaty, striven, strived, considered, dabbled

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1. Charles Dickens:

   Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

2. Oprah Winfrey:

   Inside every overweight woman, is a woman she knows she can be, nothing you’ve ever been through is wasted. So, every time I tried and failed, every time I tried again, and every time I tried again, has brought me to this most powerful moment, to say, if not now, when ?

3. Anne Morrow Lindbergh:

   It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

4. Laura Seward Forczyk:

   Jim Bridenstine has tried and tried and tried to convince Congress that there is a legitimate reason for having a deadline of humans landing on the moon by 2024, so far, Jim Bridenstine has not been able to.

5. Winston Churchill:

   Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.