unacknowledged
- adjective
- /ˌʌnəkˈnɑːlɪdʒd/
- As I was saying, this is a great opportunity for us to build a tolerance for anyone who has ever felt different or unloved, afraid, or simply unacknowledged.
- go unacknowledged
- often unacknowledged
- largely unacknowledged
There are going to be cliques and cabals unacknowledged and acknowledged.
- There are going to be cliques and cabals unacknowledged and acknowledged.
- But I think that the jadedness, if the the ones that are jaded sometimes feel also unacknowledged.
- People do heal from malignant neglect, but it can often feel like sort of an unacknowledged form of abuse, as neglect often is.
- Another unacknowledged and unavoidable and disturbing fact is that we've got too much debt.
- You know, you ex fill them out black and you take them to a black training site and a black training site is a site that is unacknowledged.
- And he was read in across eighteen of these unacknowledged saps, unacknowledged special access projects dealing with this issue.
Examples
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I also discovered a good number of other women's associations, most of them completely unacknowledged in earlier records.
Academic text (1998) -
The considerable deterrent value of weapons monitoring also went unacknowledged by Washington.
Academic text (2004) -
Both stories suggest the unacknowledged varieties of human love.
Academic text (2011) -
With Christmas only two days away, she sadly realized her holiday would pass unacknowledged: no tree, no Christmas dinner.
Fiction book (1994) -
If the indirect communication is not responded to in a positive way, it can go unacknowledged.
Academic text (1999) -
What often remains unacknowledged in such accounts is the uncanny effect of the figure's close physical presence.
Academic text (2000) -
Once the mask was lifted, the court was able to recognize a right that had hitherto been unacknowledged.
Academic text (2009) -
At the most basic intellectual level, there is an unacknowledged tension in the Obama administration's thinking about this issue.
Academic text (2010) -
Another unacknowledged and unavoidable and disturbing fact is that we've got too much debt.
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Many heroes of the past remain unacknowledged, despite their significant contributions to society.
Synonyms
Not noticed or celebrated by other people
Not known or noticed by other people
Not praised or noticed by the public
Not approved by most people or by an official group
Not openly admitted
Antonyms
How Recognized
Surface Forms
Morphology
unacknowledged = acknowledged (transparent) = un + acknowledge + ed
Formed by adding the negative prefix 'un-' to the participial adjective 'acknowledged', yielding a straightforward negative adjective.
Etymology
Unacknowledged is built from un- meaning 'not' and acknowledge, which is related to the simple word knowledge and originally meant 'to know' or 'to admit'. So unacknowledged means 'not admitted' or 'not given credit', which is why we use it for things people do not recognize or accept.