1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. unrealized

Find the word definition

What is "unrealized"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unrealized
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ unrealized hopes
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A great resource often remained an unrealized potential for weeks or months after completion.
▪ I must revive in the listening public their own sense of moving about in worlds unrealized ....
▪ Ideals and a vision of education's unrealized potential have to go hand in hand with pragmatism.
▪ It may be more fruitful to create a utopian, and as yet unrealized, vision to hold before our eyes.
▪ Such unrealized potentials exist everywhere, waiting for some one to capitalize on them.
▪ There are also others whose unrealized creativity only flowers in later life.
▪ They are caught in this place of denial and unrealized emotion and desire.
Wiktionary
unrealized

a. Not realized; possible to obtain, yet not obtained. alt. Not realized; possible to obtain, yet not obtained.

WordNet
unrealized

adj. of persons; marked by failure to realize full potentialities; "unfulfilled and uneasy men"; "unrealized dreams and ambitions" [syn: unfulfilled, unrealised]

Usage examples of "unrealized".

Just as a building lay unrealized within rolled blueprints, so a piece of music could rest unmanifested until passed through the human mind into the hands or voice to be reborn.

He had sometimes thought, more or less idly, about the unrealized potentialities of mattercasting.

But the cutlass thrust through his belt was as much the symbol of her own unrealized potential, of the castration of her mental bravura, as it was the emblem of the male phallus.

He can tell beforehand what diseases their unborn children will be subject to, what they will die of if they live long enough, and whether they had better live at all, or remain unrealized possibilities, as belonging to a stock not worth being perpetuated.

And she would have preferred her love for him to remain unrealized, unacknowledged to her self.