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triggered

triggered adjective: having a trigger that reacts to some specific condition. Also the simple past and past participle of trigger.

Adjective

triggered (not comparable)

  1. Having a trigger that reacts to some specific condition.
    • a motion-triggered alarm
  2. (Internet) Angered; agitated.
    • Mika: Willie, the Meatball is getting to him. He's obsessed with the Meatball. Although he won't stick with that name.
      Willie: No, he likes DeSanctimonious. I don't know. It's a mistake, I think. He's got better.
      Mika: Triggered.2023 March 1, Mika Brzezinski, 1:16 from the start, in As DeSantis considers visiting key primary states, Trump continues his attacks, MSNBC, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2023

Also used as

triggered is also the simple past and past participle of trigger.

triggered meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam and Nepali

triggered in Hindi

ट्रिगर किया गया, ट्रिगर किया

triggered in Bengali

ট্রিগার করা হয়েছে

triggered in Malayalam

ട്രിഗർ ചെയ്തു

triggered in Nepali

ट्रिगर गरियो, ट्रिगर गरिएको, ट्रिगर भयो

Examples of triggered in a sentence

  • The controversial article triggered a deluge of angry letters from readers.
  • Most individuals can be easily triggered to enter, and be comfortable in the agentic state.
  • The sight triggered a string of revulsion in her.

All 40 example sentences with triggered

Words formed from triggered

Questions about triggered

What does triggered mean?
Triggered means having a trigger that reacts to some specific condition.
What is triggered in Hindi?
Triggered in Hindi is ट्रिगर किया गया, ट्रिगर किया. See Triggered meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is triggered?
Triggered is an adjective.

Words near triggered in the dictionary

  1. Trigger's broom
  2. trigger-fish
  3. trigger-happiness
  4. trigger-happy
  5. triggerable
  6. triggered
  7. triggerer
  8. triggerers
  9. triggerfish
  10. triggerfishes
  11. triggerhappy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: triggered (page history and authors); triggered (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); triggered (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); triggered (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); triggered (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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