Dictionary

unaccomplished en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + accomplished.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Not accomplished; Not having occurred or been successfully carried out.
   • The Scripture does speak of an event yet unaccomplished, of which the scene is to be the Land of Babylon. 1979, Arthur Walkington Pink, The Antichrist:
   • According to the criminal legislation of some countries, there are two different interpretations of unaccomplished crimes. 1980, China Report: Political, Sociological and Military Affairs:
   • In addition to these two his personality is based on his unaccomplished thoughts and desires when he was experiencing the world in the form of some other body. 2014, Jacob Pannirselvam, What Is Not God?: Philosophy of Scientific Spirituality:
   • Ever since, philosophical students, not always indeed with the Socratic modesty of self-confession, have loved to point out this or that gap in human knowledge, this or that needed and unaccomplished task, which the presumably wider outlook of their own professional studes, has, as they pretende, enabled them to see in the province of some special pursuit. 1890, Josiah Royce, A Neglected Study, page 364:
2. (not-comparable) Not accomplished; having few skills or achievements.
   • At thirty, unaccomplished, unemployed, and incompletely focused, he visited the greatly accomplished English writers — Landor, Coleridge, Carlyle, Wordsworth — and tenderly cherished his disappointment. 1989, Robert Weisbuch, Atlantic Double-Cross, page 3:
   • The immature, unaccomplished and unskilful cook gains no clothing, no payment, no gratuities. 1992, R. M. L. Gethin, The Buddhist Path to Awakening, page 52:
   • As a young person, she thought that people who were religious must be plain, unaccomplished folks. 2007, Beth Dotson Brown, Yes! I Am Catholic: How Faith Plays a Role in My Life, page 15:

Forms

Deriveds

unaccomplishedness