potty-trained

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Definition
  1. Adjective:
    • Having been taught to use a toilet: Describes a child who has learned to control their bladder and bowel movements and use a toilet or potty chair, rather than wearing diapers.
Usage
  • This adjective is used almost exclusively to describe young children who have completed the process of toilet training.
  • It is typically used in the predicate (after a linking verb like , , , ) or attributively before a noun like or .
Examples
  • Adjective:
    • Their two-year-old is finally potty-trained.
    • It's a big milestone when a child becomes potty-trained.
    • We are looking for a preschool that accepts potty-trained children.
Advanced Usage
  • The term can imply a developmental milestone and is often used in parenting, educational, and childcare contexts.
  • It is sometimes hyphenated as shown, but can also be written as two separate words: "potty trained."
Variants and Related Words
  • Potty train (verb): The act of teaching a child to use the toilet.
    • They are starting to potty train their daughter.
  • Toilet-trained (adjective): A synonym, though slightly less common in everyday American English.
  • Housebroken (adjective): Used for pets, especially dogs, who are trained to urinate and defecate outside. Not used for humans.
Synonyms
  • Toilet-trained
  • Out of diapers (informal phrase)
Antonyms
  • Not potty-trained
  • In diapers (informal phrase)
Adjective
  1. (of children) trained to use the toilet

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