ACKNOWLEDGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acknowledged mean? 

• ACKNOWLEDGED (adjective)
  The adjective ACKNOWLEDGED has 2 senses:

1. recognized or made known or admitted

2. generally accepted

  Familiarity information: ACKNOWLEDGED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACKNOWLEDGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Recognized or made known or admitted

Context example:

his acknowledged error

Similar:

accepted; recognised; recognized (generally approved or compelling recognition)

self-confessed (owned up to)

assumptive (accepted as real or true without proof)

declarable (that must be declared)

given; granted (acknowledged as a supposition)

putative (purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds)

Also:

known (apprehended with certainty)

Attribute:

acknowledgement; acknowledgment; recognition (the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged)

Antonym:

unacknowledged (not recognized or admitted)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Generally accepted

Similar:

unquestionable (incapable of being questioned)

 Context examples 

Henry acknowledged receipt of the information with a grunt that slid into a snore as he drifted back into sleep.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She touched—she admitted—she acknowledged the whole truth.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

No one would own that they were tired of the experiment, but by Friday night each acknowledged to herself that she was glad the week was nearly done.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Fanny acknowledged her wishes and doubts on this point: she did not know how either to wear the cross, or to refrain from wearing it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

My heart sank within me as I acknowledged the undoubted accuracy of this description.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Spitz, as lead-dog and acknowledged master of the team, felt his supremacy threatened by this strange Southland dog.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

She had already acknowledged it to herself, and she could not think differently, let him think of her as he would.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I think it would be acknowledged by the most impartial eye to have many recommendations.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

His expensiveness is acknowledged even by himself, and his whole conduct declares that self-denial is a word hardly understood by him.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Jane could have no reserves from Elizabeth, where confidence would give pleasure; and instantly embracing her, acknowledged, with the liveliest emotion, that she was the happiest creature in the world.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)