Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unfulfill

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-ful-fill
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

to not fulfill; stop short of fulfillment or completion

American usage; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"He declares that when he was bachelor he had love relations with a woman whose name he cannot state and from which relations a child was borne by the name of Domingo, of forty three years of age, and who was baptized in the parish of Mandurriao, Iloilo, by the name of Domingo of unknown parents, and he being not willing to unfulfill the duties of his conscience and those which the nature imposes upon him, […]"
"Between the fulfillment to "unfulfill" and the unfulfillment to fulfill (to borrow Benjamin's messianic terms), the remnant is indeed the prophetic name of a birthing and an interruption, of a beyond to every "goal" in Hegel's sense: […]"
"The devil will employ anything for you to unfulfill your purpose."

Etymology

From Middle English unfulfillen, equivalent to un- + fulfill.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un
Root: unfulfillen

Usage

American usage
Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

unfulfills (present, singular) unfulfilling (participle, present) unfulfilled (participle, past) unfulfilled (past) unfulfil (alternative)

Antonyms

fulfill

Questions

What does unfulfill mean?: to not fulfill; stop short of fulfillment or completion
Where does unfulfill come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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