Underacknowledged

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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 undergraduate college.”"

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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.”"

Etymology

From under- + acknowledged.

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