Take For Granted

Definition: Take For Granted

Take For Granted

Verb

1. Take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof; "I assume his train was late".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Take For Granted

Belief

Make oneself easy about, on that score; take on trust, take on credit; take for granted, take for gospel; allow some weight to, attach some weight to.

Credulity

Verb: be credulous; Adjective: jurare in verba magistri; follow implicitly; swallow, gulp down; take on trust; take for granted, take for gospel; run away with a notion, run away with an idea; jump to a conclusion, rush to a conclusion; think the moon is made of green cheese; take for granted, grasp the shadow for the substance; catch at straws, grasp at straws.

Supposition

Verb: suppose, conjecture, surmise, suspect, guess, divine; theorize; presume, presurmise, presuppose; assume, fancy, wis, take it; give a guess, speculate, believe, dare say, take it into one's head, take for granted; imagine.

Crosswords: Take For Granted

The life you know; all the stuff you take for granted - it's not gonna last. (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines; writing credit: James Cameron; Gale Anne Hurd)

Cause the one thing most important is the one we take for granted (Friends And Family; performing artist: Trik Turner)

What You Take for Granted (1984)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Century Makers: One Hundred Clever Things We Take for Granted Which Have Changed Our Lives over the Last One Hundred Years (reference)

• Everyday Machines: Amazing Devices We Take for Granted (reference)

• Secrets of Successful Fiction Writing: A Guide to Techniques and Approaches the Professionals Take for Granted (Santa Barbara Writer's Conference Sh) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

A person with faulty chemosenses is deprived of an early warning system that most of us take for granted. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Czech

považovat za samozřejmé. (various references)

Finnish

pitää tiettynä, pitää selvänä, otaksua (assume, conjecture, suppose, surmise). (various references)

French

tenir pour certain, considérer comme allant de soi, considérer comme admis. (various references)

German

voraussetzen (assume, contemplate, demand, guess, postulate, presume, presuppose, require, suppose, surmise, to expect, to require, to suppose, understand). (various references)

Greek 

παίρνω σαν δεδομένο. (various references)

Hungarian

elfogad (accept, acknowledge, adapt, adopt, receive, recognize, take, take in, to adopt, to pass, to receive, to take for granted, to take from). (various references)

Indonesian

mengentengkan (alleviate, ease). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

決め込む (to assume, to pretend, to take for granted). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きめ�"む (to assume, to pretend, to take for granted). (various references)

Pig Latin

aketay orfay antedgray

Romanian

lua drept bun, lua de bun, admite (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, allow, allow of, appoint, approve, assume, avow, Brook, concede, confess, contain, enter, grant, receive, suffer, tolerate, vouchsafe). (various references)

Russian 

считать само собой разумеющимся. (various references)

Spanish

dar por sentado (postulate), dar por hecho. (various references)

Ukrainian

вважати доведеним. (various references)

praesumo presumo. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-5 letters: arrogated, deaerator, engrafted, forgetter, garrotted, generator, orangeade, refronted, regardant, regrafted, regranted, retardant, retardate, teratogen, toadeater.