un·ac·knowl·edged

(ŭn′ăk-nŏl′ĭjd)

adj.

Not accepted or recognized: an unacknowledged inventor; an unacknowledged greeting.

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unacknowledged

(ˌʌnəkˈnɒlɪdʒd)

adj

not having been acknowledged or recognized: unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.	1.	unacknowledged - not recognized or admitted unknown - not known; "an unknown amount"; "an unknown island"; "an unknown writer"; "an unknown source" acknowledged - recognized or made known or admitted; "the acknowledged leader of the community"; "a woman of acknowledged accomplishments"; "his acknowledged error"
	2.	unacknowledged - not openly acknowledged; "an unacknowledged emergency" undeclared - not announced or openly acknowledged; "fighting an undeclared war"

Translations

unacknowledged

[ˈʌnəkˈnɒlɪdʒd] ADJ → no reconocido; [letter etc] → no contestado, sin contestar

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

unacknowledged

adj letter → unbeantwortet; mistake → uneingestanden; champion → verkannt; to leave a letter unacknowledged → den Empfang eines Briefes nicht bestätigen; to go unacknowledged (person, achievement etc) → nicht anerkannt werden

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

unacknowledged

[ˌʌnəkˈnɒlɪdʒd] adj

a. (disregarded, not recognized) → non riconosciuto/a

b. (ignored) unacknowledged, he sat down in silence → ignorato da tutti i presenti, si sedette in silenzio

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But, though so little had seemed to happen, and though our walking record was shamefully modest, yet, imperceptible as the transition had been, we were, quite insensibly indeed, and unacknowledged, in a very different relation to each other than when we had started out from the Morning Star.

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He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended legislation:

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The unacknowledged reserve that had come between us since we had last spoken together, was, I believe, as painfully felt by her as by me.

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The sensations that I could trace to herself and to me, the unacknowledged sensations that we were feeling in common, were not these.

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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.

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

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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.

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Pierre was one of those who are only strong when they feel themselves quite innocent, and since that day when he was overpowered by a feeling of desire while stooping over the snuffbox at Anna Pavlovna's, an unacknowledged sense of the guilt of that desire paralyzed his will.

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My heart was heavy that morning: I felt the unacknowledged estrangement that had grown up between us very keenly.

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But the unacknowledged distrust in him (when he looked at her) betrayed itself in his eye.

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And Natalie's unacknowledged husband placidly looked on.

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It had been a strange love-scene--the central radiance unacknowledged from first to last.

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