MEANING
1. Not openly admitted, recognized, or credited despite being present or involved.
2. Not confirmed as received, as with a message, request, or gift.
Use it for
exposing an assumption that has not been admitted; identifying a contribution that has not received credit; distinguishing nonrecognition from absenceDistinguishes a present but unrecognized contribution or assumption from an unconfirmed receipt. Academic functions: Qualification / Uncertainty.
Words that belong together
- an unacknowledged assumption
- an unacknowledged contribution
- unacknowledged dependence on
On the page
The argument depends on an unacknowledged assumption about how preferences are formed.
The historian identifies an unacknowledged contribution by local organizers.
The letter remained unacknowledged in the surviving correspondence.
An unacknowledged request does not prove that the recipient never received it.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- unacknowledged
Usage notes
Lexical negative adjective. Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative/superlative. It is not entered as a separate tense form of acknowledge. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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