Taken definition
Taken is an adjective meaning "understood in a certain way; made sense of." It has 2 meanings, listed below with example sentences.
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Syllables
- 2
- Letters
- 5
- How common
- Everyday word
Taken as an adjective
understood in a certain way; made sense of
"a word taken literally"
Same sense: interpreted
be affected with an indisposition
"the child was taken ill"
Synonyms and antonyms
- interpreted
How to say taken
Taken has 2 syllables and rhymes with bacon. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
Words that rhyme with taken
- bacon
- mistaken
- undertaken
- shaken
- awaken
- forsaken
- overtaken
- macon
- retaken
- waken
- reawaken
- unshaken
TAKEN in word games
- Scrabble
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Anagrams
- 0
Is TAKEN a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check TAKEN in the word checker, or unscramble TAKEN to see the shorter words in its letters.
Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.