unfulfilled
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4.7
- adjective
- /ˌʌnfʊlˈfɪld/
:
insatisfecho
- She felt unfulfilled in her job, believing she had the skills to do much more.
- remain unfulfilled
- unfulfilled desires
- unfulfilled dreams
That dissonance was pain, was shame, was unfulfilled potential, and regret.
- That dissonance was pain, was shame, was unfulfilled potential, and regret.
- We come back to the point of seeing in life that there are unfulfilled hopes.
- In fact, most men especially live lives of quiet desperation, struggling, feeling unfulfilled, suffering in silence.
- We are human beings with unfulfilled needs.
- You check everything off your To Do List, but you still feel unfulfilled.
- My hypothesis is that you're listening to this podcast because you are unfulfilled.
- And so the desire for happiness creates an unfulfilled expectation that makes me unhappy.
- And I always felt unfulfilled, unfilled in my life and I didn't know why.
- He would never say it, but I knew that he felt I had a talent that had gone unfulfilled or that I had a dream that was never completed.
- It's easy to sell someone an endless stream of stuff when she feels fundamentally broken and unfulfilled.
- And even if we do force ourselves to be something that we're not, often it would lead to us feeling unfulfilled.
- And straight away I was like unfulfilled again.
- Maybe there's something that they provide that that fills a need and desire for you, even though you still feel overall unfulfilled by this individual.
- Feelings of anger, boredom, emptiness, loss of purpose, nostalgia, resentment, sadness, or just feeling unfulfilled or signs of a midlife crisis.
Examples
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You strike me as a young man with unfulfilled wishes, desires.
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We come back to the point of seeing in life that there are unfulfilled hopes.
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The personal feeling of being unfulfilled, but not knowing what to do about such feelings.
Academic text (1990) -
Open it now and let me just take one look at my unfulfilled dream.
Fiction book (1996) -
Until the past few months, to me, she was a dream unfulfilled.
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Back in my rooms, the morning light revealed the full extent of my unfulfilled commitments.
Fiction book (1994) -
See, men can feel unfulfilled, too, Lotte.
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If we don't follow it to the end game, people like you and me will wind up feeling totally unfulfilled and frustrated.
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In fact, most men especially live lives of quiet desperation, struggling, feeling unfulfilled, suffering in silence.
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And I always felt unfulfilled, unfilled in my life and I didn't know why.
Synonyms
527
1.0
Unhappy because something you hoped for did not happen
280
2.8
Feeling disappointed because you cannot do something you tried hard to do
44
3.2
Not happy because something does not meet your expectations
20
3.7
Feeling unhappy because you did not get what you wanted
9
6.2
Not having reached full ability or potential
3
4.3
Feeling unhappy and not satisfied with your situation
Not feeling satisfied because a wish was not met
Antonyms
How Fulfilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unfulfilled comes from the parts un- meaning 'not' and fulfill, from the idea 'make full', just like the common words full and fill. So a person who is unfulfilled feels their life or work has not been 'made full' — their hopes or talents have not been met.