given
preposition /ˈɡɪv.ən/Definition
› knowing about or considering a particular thing: Given his age, he's a remarkably fast runner. Given (the fact) that he's had six months to do this, he hasn't made much progress.Knowledge and awarenessConnecting words which express a contrast
(Definition of given preposition from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Analysing and evaluating
- Aware
- Believable
- Believing
- Changing your mind
- Concluding and deducing
- Continually thinking about
- Decisions and deciding
- Deep in thought
- Difficult to understand
- Dreaming
- Easy to understand
- Empathy and sensitivity
- Experienced
- Experts and specialists
- Expressing and asking opinions
- Forgetting and forgetfulness
- Guesses and assumptions
- Guessing, supposing and suspecting
- Ideas, concepts and theories
- Imagining and conceiving
- Inability and awkwardness
- Inexperienced (of people)
- Inexperienced people and lack of experience
- Inspiration and inspiring
- Intelligence
- Intelligent people
- Judgments and analyses
- Logic and reason
- Memory and memories
- Mind and personality
- Misunderstanding
- Not believable
- Not believing
- Not expected or planned
- Opinions, beliefs and points of view
- People who analyse and judge
- People who make predictions
- Philosophy
- Planning, expecting and arranging
- Plans and arrangements
- Predicting things and intuition
- Remembering, reminding and reminders
- Skill, talent and ability
- Skilled, talented and able
- Solving and solutions
- Stupid and silly
- Stupid and silly behaviour
- Stupid and silly people
- Testing, checking and experimenting
- Thinking and contemplating
- Trusting and not trusting
- Unaware
- Understanding and comprehending
- Wise and sensible
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Synonyms and related words:
- abroad adverb (GOING AROUND)
- acquaintance noun
- as every schoolboy/schoolchild knows idiom
- at/in the back of your mind idiom
- awareness noun
- be ahead of the game idiom
- common adjective (USUAL)
- consciousness noun (UNDERSTANDING)
- experience noun
- experiential adjective
- familiarity noun (KNOWLEDGE)
- general knowledge noun
- glimpse noun
- grounding noun
- insight noun
- ken noun
- knowledge noun
- literacy noun
- perception noun (SIGHT)
- secret noun
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