underacknowledged en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From under- + acknowledged.
Meanings
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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.”
2009 May 8, Holland Cotter, “Where the Ocean Meets the Catskills”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more underacknowledged | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most underacknowledged | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |