unfulfilled

/ʌnfʊlˈfɪld/

US pronunciation

American sound/ʌnfʊlˈfɪld/

ʌnfʊlˈfɪld

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 3rd syllable stress
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Past ending sound

ʌnfʊl - ˈfɪld -> unfulfilled

Myanmar meaning

မဖြည့်ဆည်းသော။

Full entry

unfulfilled /ʌnfƱl'fÇld / adj

(ဆန္ဒ) မပြည့်ဝသော။ She feels unfulfilled in her present job. ❍ an unfulfilled ambition.

More examples

‘Curiously, her mother never saw it either and died at a ripe old age with that particular ambition unfulfilled.’
‘The result is a portrait haunted by longing and unfulfilled desire.’
‘The men horrified me, the way they seemed to be living unfulfilled ambitions through their sons.’
‘Her only ambition that remains unfulfilled is to go to university.’
‘But if he has any regrets, he adds, it relates to unfulfilled ambitions.’
‘There is no harder burden to carry than an unfulfilled potential.’
‘But there will be no unfulfilled desires, and this blessedness will never end.’
‘And so I still had a secret, unfulfilled desire to see how the other half live.’
‘Compound that with my unfulfilled desire to just be done with it and I was a jumble of nerves.’
‘Given his unfulfilled ambition to construct a biology of the mind, Freud would have approved.’
‘To do so is to embrace an agonistic romanticism of perpetually unfulfilled longing and desire.’
‘So the devil can offer us nothing but empty promises and unfulfilled desires.’
‘Two of my many still unfulfilled ambitions are to snorkel on the Great Barrier Reef and to swim with dolphins.’
‘He has, in all probability, just one chance to achieve the single ambition that remains unfulfilled in his hard-working career.’
‘He does have one ambition yet unfulfilled, and that is to go around the world, including going across Canada by train.’
‘For many the New Year promises another opportunity to realise unfulfilled ambitions.’
‘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.’
‘Frustration often points to unfulfilled desire, to some sort of lack or emptiness.’
‘Denise has always had an unfulfilled desire to return to her homeland which she left in 1976, aged seven, to emigrate to Blackburn with her family.’

Synonyms

displeased, discontented, unhappy, disgruntled, disappointed, unconvinced, absent, amateurish, angry, annoyed, away, bankrupt, bare, begrudging, bereft, bothered, burned out, complaining, cooked, crabby, critical, crude, cut off, cut short, dabbling, defective, deficient, deprived, destitute, devoid, dilettante, disaffected, disappointing, discouraged, empty, ennuied, envious, exasperated, failing, faultfinding, faulty, fed-up, formless, found wanting, fragmentary, fretful, fretting, frustrated, gone, griping, grudging, grumbling, grumpy, half-baked, half-done, immature, imperfect, in default, in the making, in the rough, inadequate, incomplete, inferior, insatiable, irked, irritated, jaundiced, jealous, kvetching, lacking, less, malcontent, malcontented, minus, missing, natural, needed, not completed, not done, not good enough, not satisfied, not up to par, offended, omitted, out of gas, patchy, picky, plain, plaintive, poor, put-out, querulous, raw, rough, roughhewn, scant, scanty, scarce, shapeless, short, shy, sketchy, sniveling, substandard, sulky, sullen, tentative, too little too late, unaccomplished, unadorned, unappeased, unassembled, unassuaged, uncompleted, unconcluded, under construction, undeveloped, undone, unexecuted, unfashioned, ungratified, unperfected, unpolished, unrefined, unsated, unsatisfied, unsound, upset, vexed, wanting

Antonyms

adequate, completed, contented, enough, existing, finished, fulfilled, gratified, happy, perfect, pleased, polished, present, refined, satisfactory, satisfied, sufficient, whole