Acknowledge

Verb

 * 1)  To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God.
 * 2) To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to.
 * 3) To own with gratitude or as a benefit or an obligation; as, to acknowledge a favor.
 * 4) To notify receipt, as of a letter.
 * 5) To own as genuine or valid; to assent to, as a legal instrument, to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form; as, to acknowledge a deed.

Adverbs for Acknowledge
gratefully; appreciatively; tacitly; thankfully; obsequiously; grudgingly; pusillanimously; handsomely; tardily; instinctively; cheerfully; profusely; indulgently; exuberantly; restrainedly; warmly; characteristically; graciously: jocosely; belatedly; glumiy; obstreperously; boisterously; taciturnly; incoherently.

Synonyms for Acknowledge
avow, proclaim, recognize, own, admit, allow, concede, confess, confess, believe, accept, grant, endorse, profess, subscribe, declare, uphold, certify.

Antonyms for Acknowledge
refuse, decline, deny, ignore, repudiate, renounce, disown.

Thesaurus
accept; account for; accredit with; accrete to; admit; admit everything; affirm; agree; agree provisionally; allege; allow; announce; answer; answer back; apply to; ascribe to; assent grudgingly; asseverate; assign to; attach to; attest; attribute to; aver; avouch; avow; bear the expense; bear witness; blame; blame for; blame on; bless; bring home to; certify; charge on; charge to; chip in; come back; come back at; come clean; concede; confess; connect with; consider; cop a plea; credit; credit with; declare; deem; defray; defray expenses; depone; depose; disclose; divulge; echo; express general agreement; fasten upon; father upon; finance; fix on; fix upon; flash back; foot the bill; fund; give acknowledgment; give answer; give credit; give evidence; give thanks; go Dutch; go along with; grant; hang on; hold; honor a bill; impute to; lay to; let on; make acknowledgments of; not oppose; offer thanks; open up; out with it; own; own up; pay for; pay the bill; pay the piper; pin on; pinpoint; place upon; plead guilty; point to; proclaim; publish; react; receive; recognize; redeem; reecho; refer to; rejoin; render credit; render thanks; reply; respond; retort; return; return answer; return for answer; return thanks; reveal; reverberate; riposte; saddle on; saddle with; say; say in reply; set down to; settle upon; shoot back; spill; spill it; spit it out; stand the costs; swear; talk back; tell; tell all; tell the truth; testify; thank; view; vouch; warrant; witness; yield

Etymology
Recorded since 1553, a blend (with a parasitic c slipped in) of aknow (from  oncnawan:, itself from on + cnawan:) + knowlechen:. Other sources derive it from the prefix a- + a verb knowledge, and compare acknow.

Derived terms

 * acknowledgeable
 * acknowledged
 * acknowledgedly
 * acknowledge the corn
 * acknowledged

Related terms

 * acknowledgment

Translations

 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: признавам
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * French:


 * German: zur Kenntnis nehmen, ,
 * Italian: riconoscere, ammettere
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Welsh: cydnabod


 * Bulgarian: признавам
 * Dutch:


 * German:
 * Portuguese: ,


 * Bulgarian: признателен съм
 * Dutch: erkentelijk zijn, erkennen


 * Portuguese:


 * Dutch:
 * Portuguese:




 * Bulgarian: потвърждавам
 * Dutch: ontvangst bevestigen/melden
 * French:


 * German: den Empfang bestätigen
 * Portuguese:
 * Welsh: cydnabod


 * : anerkennen
 * : agnoskar
 * : 承認する (shōnin suru); 認める (mitomeru)
 * : 인정하다, 승인하다
 * : kabul etmek