granted

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of grant.

   The court granted the appeal after months of deliberation.

   He was granted citizenship after a long and demanding process.

   Note

   One spelling covers both the past tense (the court granted the appeal) and the participle that follows have or be. Because grant gives something to someone, the passive can make the recipient the subject: he was granted a patent, as well as a patent was granted to him. Grant's further sense of admitting that something is true is where the conceding "granted" comes from.

2. 2
   adverb

   Used to concede that a point is true, often just before introducing a contrasting or competing consideration.

   Granted, the proposal has flaws, but it remains the most practical option on the table.

   The evidence is thin, granted, yet the overall pattern is hard to ignore.

   Similaradmittedly, true

   Note

   A concession that clears the ground before a "but": the speaker accepts the other side's point so that their own can follow. It usually opens a clause, set off by a comma, and it can stand alone as a complete reply ("You haven't been a very good father." "Granted."). Admittedly and true do similar work. Unlike the premise-setting "granted that", it introduces no clause of its own.

3. 3
   adjective

   Used to mark a premise that is accepted as true at the outset of a syllogistic argument.

   Granted that all mammals are warm-blooded, and that whales are mammals, whales must be warm-blooded.

   Granted that the witnesses agree on the time, the suspect could not have been at the scene.

   Similargiven, assuming

   Note

   Here the concession becomes a launching point: what is granted is built on, not argued against. The construction comes in two shapes. Granted that takes a full clause (granted that he has done nothing wrong). Plain granted takes a noun phrase directly (granted the lack of evidence). The conclusion then follows in the main clause, often carried by should, must or can.

   Granted the lack of evidence, we can make no such conclusion.

   Granted his spotless record, the board should hear him out.

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