If you use unfulfilled to describe something such as a promise, ambition, or need, you mean that what was promised, hoped for, or needed has not happened.
Do you have any unfulfilled ambitions?
...angry at unfulfilled promises of jobs and decent housing.
The election had raised hopes that remain unfulfilled.
2. adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE]
If you describe someone as unfulfilled, you mean that they feel dissatisfied with life or with what they have done.
You must let go of the idea that to be single is to be unhappy and unfulfilled.
He admitted that he still feels unfulfilled as a footballer.
unfulfilled in British English
(ˌʌnfʊlˈfɪld)
adjective
1.
not completed or achieved
unfulfilled ambitions
2.
not having achieved one's potential or desires
Examples of 'unfulfilled' in a sentence
unfulfilled
What then do we do with these unfulfilled longings and desires?
Christianity Today (2000)
Missed chances have left people with unfulfilled life chances.
The Sun (2008)
It made me feel insecure and unfulfilled.
The Sun (2014)
Promises often remain unfulfilled for a variety of reasons.
Tompkins, Jonathan Human Resource Management in Government (1995)
The loss in unfulfilled potential is incalculable.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
There are no service problems or unfulfilled promises.
Hopkins, Tom The Guide to Greatness in Sales (1994)
You can make an unfulfilled ambition happen.
The Sun (2011)
The treats that he promised himself are still unfulfilled.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
It was an act of wanton social vandalism that has condemned generations to lives of unfulfilled potential.
The Sun (2015)
The atmosphere was thick with disappointment and unfulfilled promise.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
This asks a lot of you but is better than unfulfilled ambition making you unhappy.
The Sun (2013)
But half of all still have unfulfilled fantasies.
The Sun (2015)
He did dwell on the unfulfilled promise of his playing career.
Duncan Hamilton Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough (2007)
Her bucket list of unfulfilled ambitions is dizzying.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The book is packed with women who feel unfulfilled or are hurt by a glance in their direction.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
All those unfulfilled needs and desires are bursting out of you in a way that is both overwhelming and unmanageable.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He should savour such relationships while he can, because their demands may yet go unfulfilled.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Yes, we have heard this before and too often the pledges have remained unfulfilled.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He felt unfulfilled but his life wasn't a failure.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The problem is, he feels unfulfilled because he does not perceive his work to be moral.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Four years on, his ambition remains unfulfilled.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It also leaves the country's economic potential unfulfilled.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
But serial pledges to take off'next year' have gone unfulfilled.
The Sun (2014)
In other languages
unfulfilled
British English: unfulfilled ADJECTIVE
If you use unfulfilled to describe something such as a promise, ambition, or need, you mean that what was promised, hoped for, or needed has not happened.