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unacknowledged /ʌnəkˈnɒlɪdʒd /adjective1Existing or having taken place but not accepted, recognized, or admitted to: her unacknowledged feelings...- Because we accept unacknowledged, therefore unarticulated, premises that inhibit us from identifying causes and eliminating them, we deal with the effects only of our most pressing problems.
- He put it down by the door, its presence and nature recognized but unacknowledged by either of them.
- Like the Rathergate and Swiftvets story, the scene seems set for an invisible and unacknowledged meme to exert a powerful influence on mainstream news.
2(Of a person or their work) deserving but not receiving praise or recognition: his ideas have made a striking, if largely unacknowledged, comeback...- That is the unacknowledged stepfather of rave culture.
- They are called dance captains - some of the most unacknowledged people in musical theater.
- Was he the unacknowledged father of Madeleine's ‘sister’ (actually her daughter), Armande, whom Moliere married when she was twenty and he forty?
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