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unacknowledging

unacknowledging is the present participle and gerund of unacknowledge.

Meaning of unacknowledge

Verb

unacknowledge (third-person singular simple present unacknowledges, present participle unacknowledging, simple past and past participle unacknowledged)

  1. (rare) To not acknowledge, or to rescind acknowledgement of.
    • The servants of Method must therefore unacknowledge its nonexistence (a technique in which they are highly skilled). By the grace of this double negative may they bless its existence in the best way they know.1985, Mary Daly, Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation, page 12

Adjective

unacknowledging (comparative more unacknowledging, superlative most unacknowledging)

  1. Failing to acknowledge.

Forms of unacknowledging

comparativemore unacknowledging
superlativemost unacknowledging

Questions about unacknowledging

What does unacknowledging mean?
Unacknowledging means failing to acknowledge.
What is unacknowledging the present participle and gerund of?
Unacknowledging is the present participle and gerund of unacknowledge.
What part of speech is unacknowledging?
Unacknowledging is an adjective.

Words near unacknowledging in the dictionary

  1. unacknowledge
  2. unacknowledgeable
  3. unacknowledged
  4. unacknowledgement
  5. unacknowledges
  6. unacknowledging
  7. unacknowledgment
  8. unacoustic
  9. unacquaint
  10. unacquaintable
  11. unacquaintance

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unacknowledging (page history and authors); unacknowledge (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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