take to heart

1. 1.

   get down to; pay attention to; take seriously

   “Attend to your duties, please”

   Synonymsattend to

   Broadermind

Questions about take to heart

What does take to heart mean?

take to heart means "get down to; pay attention to; take seriously".

What is another word for take to heart?

Close synonyms include attend to. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is take to heart a common word?

take to heart is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.