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UNFULFILLED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unfulfilled mean?
• UNFULFILLED (adjective)
The adjective UNFULFILLED has 1 sense:
1. of persons; marked by failure to realize full potentialities
Familiarity information: UNFULFILLED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of persons; marked by failure to realize full potentialities
Synonyms:
unfulfilled; unrealised; unrealized
Context example:
unrealized dreams and ambitions
Similar:
unsuccessful (not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome)
Context examples
How all this will terminate, I know not, but I had rather die than return shamefully, my purpose unfulfilled.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Her smile however changed to a sigh when she remembered that promise to Willoughby was yet unfulfilled, and feared she had that to communicate which might again unsettle the mind of Marianne, and ruin at least for a time this fair prospect of busy tranquillity.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
You took me on board when my vigour was exhausted, and I should soon have sunk under my multiplied hardships into a death which I still dread, for my task is unfulfilled.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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