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underacknowledged

underacknowledged adjective: having received insufficient acknowledgement.

Adjective

underacknowledged (comparative more underacknowledged, superlative most underacknowledged)

  1. Having received insufficient acknowledgement.
    • Dedicated to the many women who had been underacknowledged presences at the university since the 19th century, the stone was carved with an open-ended spiral of numbers, each marking the enrollment of women in the university in a given year, with 1969 footnoted: “Yale admitted women into the...2009 May 8, Holland Cotter, “Where the Ocean Meets the Catskills”, in New York Times

Forms of underacknowledged

comparativemore underacknowledged
superlativemost underacknowledged

Origin of underacknowledged

From under- + acknowledged.

Questions about underacknowledged

What does underacknowledged mean?
Underacknowledged means having received insufficient acknowledgement.
What part of speech is underacknowledged?
Underacknowledged is an adjective.

Words near underacknowledged in the dictionary

  1. underachiever
  2. underachievers
  3. underachieves
  4. underachieving
  5. underacinated
  6. underacknowledged
  7. underact
  8. underacted
  9. underacting
  10. underaction
  11. underactions

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