ENLISTED Synonyms: 79 Similar and Opposite Words

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Definition of enlisted

as in militant

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verb

past tense of enlist

as in inducted

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Adjective

Officers and enlisted men grouped around nearest radios. — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2026 Van Dyke joined the Army in 2008 and, in 2023, was promoted to the rank of master sergeant, the second-highest enlisted rank in the Army, according to the indictment. — Hallie Golden, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026 Darren Heller, the AFCENT Battle Lab senior enlisted leader. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025 Most boards consider hundreds, if not thousands, of officers for promotion, and senior enlisted troops also come before similar boards. — Davis Winkie, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for enlisted

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Abductions are common in Nigeria, where militant groups target schoolchildren and other civilians to put pressure on the government and extract ransoms.

— Dyepkazah Shibayan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
The strikes came after Israel blamed the militant Hezbollah group for firing two explosive drones.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of militant

Verb

By the time of her Rock & Roll Hall of Fame honors, Parton was already a longtime member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, which inducted her in 1999.

— Stephen L. Betts, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2026
Eminem shared a screenshot of a letter the late singer penned him after he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

— Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of inducted

Verb

Summary Canadian universities have successfully recruited 64 international scholars, 48 from top American institutions like Harvard and MIT.

— Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Serving as the territory’s secretary of education between 2013 and 2017, overseeing all of its public schools from kindergarten through high school, he was recruited to Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 as a teacher.

— Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of recruited

Adjective

Rezaei, 71, led the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard during its formative years, through the entire 1980-1988 war with Iraq and until 1997.

— Lee Keath, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
Sudan plunged into all-out war in April 2023 as fighting erupted between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese military.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of paramilitary

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Community organizer Estuardo Mazariegos, who is running to replace City Councilmember Curren Price in a South Los Angeles district, is now enrolled.

— Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
More than 241,000 children are currently enrolled in the program statewide, WFAE reported this week.

— The NPR Network, NPR, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of enrolled

Verb

The Dispatch reported that an EMCC Athletics representative would not confirm whether Stephens remains employed by the school in another capacity.

— Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Chicago police employed 1,102 total detectives as of May 2023, and 1,163 as of last week.

— Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of employed

Adjective

Macron says fires are warlike crisis for France Out-of-control wildfires represent France’s greatest crisis since World War II, President Emmanuel Macron said.

— Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 29 July 2026
The poem that precedes it, the Iliad, is a cruel and beautiful work, the ultimate story of war; the Odyssey has its warlike passages, but its central energies seem almost commonplace beside the merciless fury of Achilles.

— David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026

Definition of warlike

Verb

The rare, firsthand accounts show the perils faced by tens of thousands of children believed to have been conscripted into the war by all sides.

— Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026
After Taylor left the band in 1974, the Stones conscripted Ron Wood, formerly of the Jeff Beck Group and the Faces.

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 July 2026

Definition of conscripted

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