Granted

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæntɪd/

Definitions

1. Given or allowed as a right or privilege ; accepted as true or certain without needing proof
2. Permitted, provided, or awarded officially ; understood or believed to be valid without question
3. Acknowledged or conceded formally ; taken for granted as a fact without verification

Etymology: "Granted" is the past tense and past participle of "grant," so its story is really the story of the verb. The verb arrived in Middle English from Anglo-Norman "granter," which came from Old French, where it meant "to promise, assure, guarantee, confirm, ratify." That French verb appears to have been a blend of two older words: "garantir," meaning to guarantee or vouch for something, and an earlier "cranter" or "creanter," meaning to allow or permit. The second of these traces back to a reconstructed Medieval Latin form, "credentāre," built on the Latin "credere," "to believe, trust." The sense of permission and the sense of solemn assurance were close neighbours in Old French, and English inherited both. To grant something once meant to promise it or bind yourself to it, and "granted" in the sense of "accepted as true without proof" carries that older flavour of taking someone's word for it.

Synonyms: allowed, permitted, conceded, bestowed, given

Antonyms: refused, withheld, denied, rejected, disallowed