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acknowledged
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acknowledged, adj.
Generally accepted or recognized as correct or reasonable. Opposite of unacknowledged . [WordNet 1.5]
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acknowledged
accepted, admitted, affirmed, allowed, approved, authenticated, avowed, being done, certified, comme il faut, conceded, confessed, confirmed, conformable, conventional, correct, countersigned, customary, de rigueur, decent, decorous, endorsed, established, fixed, folk, formal, granted, hallowed, handed down, heroic, hoary, immemorial, inveterate, legendary, long-established, long-standing, meet, mythological, notarized, of long standing, of the folk, oral, orthodox, prescriptive, professed, proper, ratified, received, recognized, right, rooted, sealed, seemly, signed, stamped, sworn and affirmed, sworn to, time-honored, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, understood, underwritten, unwritten, validated, venerable, warranted, worshipfulROGET THESAURUS
acknowledged
Habit
N habit, habitude, assuetude, assuefaction, wont, run, way, common state of things, general state of things, natural state of things, ordinary state of things, ordinary course of things, ordinary run of things, matter of course, beaten path, beaten track, beaten ground, prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice, prevalence, observance, conventionalism, conventionality, mode, fashion, vogue, etiquette, order of the day, cry, conformity, consuetude, dustoor, one's old way, old school, veteris vestigia flammae, laudator temporis acti, rule, standing order, precedent, routine, red-tape, red-tapism, pipe clay, rut, groove, cacoethes, bad habit, confirmed habit, inveterate habit, intrinsic habit, addiction, trick, training, seasoning, second nature, acclimatization, knack, habitual, accustomary, prescriptive, accustomed, of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence, consuetudinary, wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot, well-trodden, well-known, familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped, prevailing, prevalent, current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited, of course, admitted, understood, conformable, according to use, according to custom, according to routine, in vogue, in fashion, in, with it, fashionable, wont, used to, given to, addicted to, attuned to, habituated, in the habit of, habitue, at home in, seasoned, imbued with, devoted to, wedded to, hackneyed, fixed, rooted, deep-rooted, ingrafted, permanent, inveterate, besetting, naturalized, ingrained, habitually, always, as usual, as is one's wont, as things go, as the world goes, as the sparks fly upwards, more suo, more solito, ex more, as a rule, for the most part, usually, generally, typically, most often, most frequently, cela s'entend, abeunt studia in mores, adeo in teneris consuescere multum est, consuetudo quasi altera natura, hoc erat in more majorum, How use doth breed a habit in a man!, magna est vis consuetudinis, morent fecerat usus.For further exploring for "acknowledged" in Webster Dictionary Online