Unfulfilled
[ʌnfʊl'fɪld] or [,ʌnfʊl'fɪld]
Definition
(adj.) of persons; marked by failure to realize full potentialities; 'unfulfilled and uneasy men'; 'unrealized dreams and ambitions' .
Checker: Lorrie--From WordNet
Definition
adj. not fulfilled.
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Examples
- If that were so, my sacrifice was nothing; my plainest obligation to her unfulfilled; and every poor action I had shrunk from, I was hourly doing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- My friends, says he, I remember a duty unfulfilled yesterday. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Security gave dignity to her passion; the certainty of a full return, left her with no wish unfulfilled. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- If you delay, he may die with his request ungratified, with his last wish--intrusted to me--we have long been much more than brothers--unfulfilled. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- How all this will terminate, I know not; but I had rather die, than return shamefully,--my purpose unfulfilled. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Yours, I trust, as the mistress of Lowick, will not leave any yearning unfulfilled. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- An unfulfilled impression, for he goes in again. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Here, then, was one of my anticipations of the morning still unfulfilled. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In the trenches of the Western front alone during the late war thousands of potential great men died unfulfilled. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Sir Humphry Davy, after a life crowded with splendid achievements, died at Geneva in 1829 with many of his noblest dreams unfulfilled. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The starting point of any process of thinking is something going on, something which just as it stands is incomplete or unfulfilled. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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