unmet

[ uhn-met ]

adjective
  1. 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.

  2. (of a minimum amount) not reached: If the production line is disrupted, the result will be everything from defective products to unmet quotas.

  1. not personally or physically encountered: This is an essay on my longtime, unmet friend, the mystic Thomas Merton.

  2. (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.

Origin of unmet

1
First recorded before 1100; un-1 + met

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How to use unmet in a sentence

  • If the bodily needs of the boy are unmet, he can not reach his full development as a man.

    The Unfolding Life | Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux
  • The 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