received

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɹɪˈsiːvd/, SAMPA: /rI"si:vd/

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• Hyphenation: re‧ceived

Verb

received

1. Simple past tense and past participle of receive.

Adjective

received (not comparable) the received (knowledge, wisdom, opinion, story, information)

1. Generally accepted as correct or true
2. (by implication) Unchallenged axioms

   The recent revelation that East Anglia University's Climate Research Unit actively suppressed research findings contrary to the "received wisdom" of Global Warming, has severely damaged the credibility of the UN's IPCC predictions, which relied heavily on this institution's research findings.

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: dear · high · above · #298: received · read · together · already

Anagrams

• deceiver