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[ uhn-ree-uh-lahyzd ] / ʌnˈri əˌlaɪzd / SEE SYNONYMS FOR unrealized ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivenot made real or actual; not resulting in accomplishment, as a task or aim: unrealized ambitions. not known or suspected: unrealized talent. Origin of unrealizedFirst recorded in 1765–75; un-1 + realize + -ed2 Words nearby unrealizedunready, unreal, unrealistic, unreality, unrealizable, unrealized, unreason, unreasonable, unreasonable behaviour, unreasoning, unreckonable Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for unrealizedWith its extensive coastlines, Iran has the potential to promote this kind tourism but it is, to say the least, unrealized. Operation Wholesome Sea: Iran Coast Guard Forces Women Off Beaches|IranWire|May 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST Maugham once confided to Christopher Isherwood his unrealized wish, when he turned seventy, to return to India and study Shankara. Maugham's Love Life|Brad Gooch|June 3, 2010|DAILY BEAST When Susan Lucci earned her first Emmy after 18 unrealized nominations, I stood and cheered. Who's Killing the Soaps?|Taffy Brodesser-Akner|December 14, 2009|DAILY BEAST Whatever, the result is that the promise of stem-cell research is delayed or unrealized. A 'Breakthrough' in the Stem Cell Debate|Michael Kinsley|March 2, 2009|DAILY BEAST
The former give the solid relatively formed elements of character; the latter, its ideal or unrealized possibilities. Ethics|John Dewey and James Hayden Tufts But the way in which they received these last tossed pebbles of metaphor showed him unrealized profundities. The Shadow of Life|Anne Douglas Sedgwick In this and similar ways it happens that the magnitude of the sexual sphere in woman is unrealized by the careless observer. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6)|Havelock Ellis The unrealized difficulty of this program lay in the widespread ignorance. Darkwater|W. E. B. Du Bois The character of the human voice depends thus on the ear to an unrealized degree.
British Dictionary definitions for unrealized
adjective(of an ambition, hope, goal, etc) not attained or brought to fruition Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to unrealizedveiled, underlying, lurking, inherent, smoldering, suppressed, likely, hidden, possible, probable, latent, innate, lost, instinctive, subliminal, repressed, budding, future, subconscious, reflex |