potty-trained
Học thuậtThân thiện
Definition
- 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
- (of children) trained to use the toilet