unfulfilled

adjective

un·​ful·​filled ˌən-fu̇(l)-ˈfild 

also -fə(l)-

: not fulfilled:

a

: not filled : unsatisfied, unmet

… vital unfulfilled needs of the nation …

—Harry S. Truman

b

: not carried out : not accomplished or finished

unfulfilled goals

unfulfilled shipments

c

: not converted into reality

an unfulfilled promise

d

: not having reached a point of satisfaction or happiness

… a family that includes a supportive yet equally unfulfilled wife …

—Matt Roush

Examples of unfulfilled in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Keeping ‘the wolf away from the door’ Colorado River cuts could hit the tiny town of Cave Creek harder than any other municipality, town officials say, potentially grinding growth to a halt and pulling the town government into lawsuits over unfulfilled water contracts. —Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025

But those asks remain unfulfilled. —David Miliband, Time, 4 Nov. 2025

Resolved or not, Franco, Abrams, and Abernathy’s years-long financial purgatory also exemplifies the unfulfilled promises of #MeToo. —Victoria Bekiempis, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2025

More often than not, their dreams of wealth, power, influence and fame went unfulfilled. —Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for unfulfilled

• backfilled
• distilled
• fulfilled
• infilled
• instilled
• rebuild
• refilled
• unfilled
• unskilled
• untilled
• billed
• build