unfulfilled
Americanadjective
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not carried out or done.
many unfulfilled requests.
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not yet achieved.
his unfulfilled dreams.
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not happy or satisfied, from not having achieved one’s desires or full potential.
I was feeling unfulfilled in my job.
adjective
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not completed or achieved
unfulfilled ambitions
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not having achieved one's potential or desires
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Example Sentences
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Unfulfilled hope for justice can leave wounds that rarely heal, causing persistent psychological and physical symptoms or illness.
From Slate • Jun. 4, 2023
Unfulfilled, he started looking for not-for-profit organizations to connect with and stumbled into a board position at Boys to Men.
From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2018
Kate Winslet wasted in a role you expect to see listed in the credits as “Emotionally Unfulfilled Career Woman.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2016
Unfulfilled expectation plays out against an evolving post-imperial, post-industrial national identity, said David Goldblatt, author of “The Ball Is Round.”
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2010
Unfulfilled desires and ambitions unrealised had combined with distaste for the daily drudgery that had fallen to my lot to embitter my poverty and cause me to look with gloomy distrust upon the unpromising future.
From The Red Thumb Mark by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
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