unacknowledged
- a not recognized or admitted
- s not openly acknowledged
an unacknowledged emergency
- Miller's Crossing was a sly, unacknowledged blend of two Dashiell Hammett's tales, Red Harvest and The Glass Key; and O Brother Where Art Thou? transferred The Odyssey to the American .
- Perhaps the answer lies with Percy Bysshe Shelley, the British poet, who wrote in 1820 that "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
- Despite speculation about her possible unacknowledged contributions to special relativity, she herself never made such claims.