underacknowledged

adjective

Having received insufficient acknowledgement.

Scrabble 30

Meanings

adjectiveunderacknowledged (comparative more underacknowledged, superlative most underacknowledged)

comparative more underacknowledged · superlative most underacknowledged

  1. Having received insufficient acknowledgement.
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    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 undergraduate college.”

    2009 May 8, Holland Cotter, “Where the Ocean Meets the Catskills”, in New York Times

Origin

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APA

underacknowledged. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underacknowledged

MLA

“underacknowledged.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underacknowledged. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “underacknowledged,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underacknowledged.

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