Granted vs Trusty - What's the difference?
granted | trusty |
(grant)
Given, awarded.
.
(used to mark the premise of a syllogistic argument)
Reliable or trustworthy.
A trusted person, especially a prisoner who has been granted special privileges.
* 1941 , James Howell Street, In my father's house
*1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 58:
*:The cell block is clean and doesn't smell of disinfectant. The trusties do all the work. The supply of trusties is always ample.
As a verb granted
is (grant).As an adverb granted
is .As a preposition granted
is (used to mark the premise of a syllogistic argument).As an adjective trusty is
reliable or trustworthy.As a noun trusty is
a trusted person, especially a prisoner who has been granted special privileges.granted
English
Verb
(head)- He was granted a patent on his invention.
Adverb
(-)- He's a good student and usually does well. Granted , he did fail that one test, but I think there were good reasons for that.
- ''"You haven't been a very good father." "Granted ."
Preposition
(English prepositions)- Granted that he has done nothing wrong, he should be set free.
- Granted the lack of evidence, we can make no such conclusion.
Synonyms
* (used to mark the premise of an argument) givenSee also
* take for grantedAnagrams
*trusty
English
Adjective
(er)Noun
(trusties)- We usta have a rule that if a trusty shot an escaping convict, then the trusty would go free.