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View synonyms for unrealized

unrealized

[ uhn-ree-uh-lahyzd ]

adjective

  1. not made real or actual; not resulting in accomplishment, as a task or aim:

    unrealized ambitions.

  2. not known or suspected:

    unrealized talent.



unrealized

/ ʌnˈrɪəˌlaɪzd /

adjective

  1. (of an ambition, hope, goal, etc) not attained or brought to fruition


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Word History and Origins

Origin of unrealized1

First recorded in 1765–75; un- 1 + realize ( def ) + -ed 2( def )

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Example Sentences

With its extensive coastlines, Iran has the potential to promote this kind tourism but it is, to say the least, unrealized.

It was a promise unrealized until 2012, when construction finally began.

That was at least the pitch, which went mostly unrealized, according to Gezari.

Maugham once confided to Christopher Isherwood his unrealized wish, when he turned seventy, to return to India and study Shankara.

When Susan Lucci earned her first Emmy after 18 unrealized nominations, I stood and cheered.

But the scheme has gone, these sixty years, to the cloudy nether-world of glorious dreams unrealized.

Once, their aim appeared to be a noble possibility, struggling still and unrealized, but unrefuted.

We cannot, of course, be content with an unrealized unity of the Church.

But the way in which they received these last tossed pebbles of metaphor showed him unrealized profundities.

At this moment, wealth seemed within my grasp, and in the next I might be mourning over or cursing my unrealized hopes.

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