unmet
not responded to adequately; not satisfied or fulfilled, as a need, expectation, challenge, etc.: Migrant health centers could address an important unmet need for health services among farmworkers and their families.
(of a minimum amount) not reached: If the production line is disrupted, the result will be everything from defective products to unmet quotas.
not personally or physically encountered: This is an essay on my longtime, unmet friend, the mystic Thomas Merton.
(of a traveler) not greeted or picked up on arrival: Outside the terminal, pushy taxi drivers were vying to get the few unmet passengers into decrepit taxis.
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How to use unmet in a sentence
And this mix of intellectualism and faithfulness is filling an unmet need among students on many of these campuses.
Can Christians Still Go to Harvard? | Kirsten Powers, Jonathan Merritt | October 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere are 75 million boomers, representing a lot of angst, unmet expectations, and fading dreams.
The second study in this little book reveals the tremendous unmet need of the world.
The Call of the World | W. E. DoughtyWas Panek—and through him this as-yet-unmet leader—behind that attempt on Abrams' life?
Man of Many Minds | E. Everett EvansRare indeed, in our earth life, would be the crisis unmet by this treasury of knowledge.
The Boss of Little Arcady | Harry Leon Wilson
If the bodily needs of the boy are unmet, he can not reach his full development as a man.
The Unfolding Life | Antoinette Abernethy LamoreauxThe Cherry family had been so long in their greetings that they were among the last to pass by the unmet traveller and her pillar.
The Heart of Arethusa | Francis Barton Fox
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