unfulfilled

[uhn-fool-fild]

adjective

1. not carried out or done.

   many unfulfilled requests.

2. not yet achieved.

   his unfulfilled dreams.

3. not happy or satisfied, from not having achieved one’s desires or full potential.

   I was feeling unfulfilled in my job.

unfulfilled

/ ˌʌnfʊlˈfɪld /

adjective

1. not completed or achieved

   unfulfilled ambitions

2. not having achieved one's potential or desires

Other Word Forms

• unfulfilling adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of unfulfilled¹

un- ¹ + fulfill + -ed ²

Example Sentences

“If you wake up every morning a little bit unfulfilled, it is so common to think, ‘If only I had more money, then everything would be OK,’ because money is so quantifiable,” he said.

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“If you wake up every morning a little bit unfulfilled, it is so common to think, ‘If only I had more money, then everything would be OK,’ because money is so quantifiable,” he said.

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Yet here he sat, shaking like a leaf in autumn, with only one moon left and his duty as yet unfulfilled!

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The footlights of the West End might remain a distant, unfulfilled dream forevermore.

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Minka Kelly plays a hotshot executive — shorthand for misguided, unfulfilled — out to acquire a French Champagne vineyard.

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Related Words

• bare 
• incomplete 
• unadorned 
• undeveloped