taken for granted
Assumed without thanks
Taken for granted describes something assumed without question or appreciated insufficiently.
To take a fact for granted is to accept it as true without examining it: We take for granted that the sun will rise tomorrow.
To take a person for granted is to fail to appreciate them, assuming their presence or effort will always be there: After twenty years of marriage, he'd taken her for granted.
- assumedTaken as true
- goes without sayingUnderstood without articulation
- unspokenNot verbally expressed
- put-uponTreated unfairly, overburdened
- assumptionUnverified belief accepted as true
tacit · implied · second nature · disregard · understood · entitlement · thankless · complacency · invisible · behind the scenes · ingratitude · unacknowledged · undervaluation · overlook · presuppose · unappreciated · inferred · neglect
- overlookedoverlooked, unnoticed, ignored, forgotten, neglected
- Self-Pitywoe is me, why me, nobody cares, story of my life, unappreciated
- being overlookedneglect, dismissal, unnoticed, oversight, disregard
- rejectedrejected, spurned, rebuffed, snubbed, refused
- premisespremise, assumption, postulate, axiom, presupposition
taken for grantedcherished
Held dear, prized
treasured · valued · appreciated · prized · esteemed
taken for grantednoticed
Became aware of
seen · observed · attended to · paid attention to · aware of
taken for grantedquestioned
Asked for information
doubted · scrutinized · examined · reconsidered · challenged
take, grant, taken, taking, takes, retake, retaking, retaken, untaken