UNACKNOWLEDGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unacknowledged mean? 

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

1. not recognized or admitted

2. not openly acknowledged

  Familiarity information: UNACKNOWLEDGED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNACKNOWLEDGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not recognized or admitted

Similar:

unappreciated; unsung; unvalued (having value that is not acknowledged)

secret; unavowed (not openly made known)

unconfessed (not admitted)

unrecognised; unrecognized (not recognized)

Also:

unknown (not known)

Attribute:

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

Antonym:

acknowledged (recognized or made known or admitted)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not openly acknowledged

Context example:

an unacknowledged emergency

Similar:

undeclared (not announced or openly acknowledged)

 Context examples 

The acknowledged lovers talked and laughed, the unacknowledged were silent.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I should never deserve her confidence again, after forcing from her a confession of what is meant at present to be unacknowledged to any one.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Tudor's uncle had married an English lady who was third cousin to a living lord, and Amy regarded the whole family with great respect, for in spite of her American birth and breeding, she possessed that reverence for titles which haunts the best of us—that unacknowledged loyalty to the early faith in kings which set the most democratic nation under the sun in ferment at the coming of a royal yellow-haired laddie, some years ago, and which still has something to do with the love the young country bears the old, like that of a big son for an imperious little mother, who held him while she could, and let him go with a farewell scolding when he rebelled.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)