unfulfilled
/ʌnfʊlˈfɪld
/adjective
1Not carried out or brought to completion: it was his unfulfilled ambition to write...
- One of his unfulfilled ambitions is to write a scientific book on a particular forest and its inhabitants as well as write a book on wildlife photography.
- Then I thought some more about the emotions brought about by an unfulfilled dream.
- There is no harder burden to carry than an unfulfilled potential.
1.1Not having fully utilized or exploited one’s abilities or character: I was restless and unfulfilled...
- First of all, I don't believe the characterization of being unfulfilled.
- All the characters in Things You Can Tell are lonely and unfulfilled.
- If people are unfulfilled and unhappy that carries over in the quality of their work.
Derivatives
unfulfillable
- Projections made on the back of a good year in 2004 will raise unfulfillable expectations in gullible consumers.
- Thus, some unscrupulous types are getting rich off kids' unfulfillable dreams.
- Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing, it had me trembling.
Rhymes
- donnish
- donnishly
- donnishness
- donnybrook
- donné
- donnée
- donor
- donor card
- donor fatigue
- do not adjust your set
- do-nothing
- donothingism
- donothingness
- Don Quixote
- donship
- don't
- don't ask me!
- don't call us, we'll call you
- don't-care
- don't-careish
- don't-careishness
- don't-carish
- don't-carishness
- dontcha
- don'tcha