Unaccomplished
adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Not accomplished; Not having occurred or been successfully carried out. not-comparable
"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."
- 2 Not accomplished; having few skills or achievements. not-comparable
"At thirty, unaccomplished, unemployed, and incompletely focused, he visited the greatly accomplished English writers — Landor, Coleridge, Carlyle, Wordsworth — and tenderly cherished his disappointment."
Example
More examples"That cannot be called a success which leaves the most difficult part of the task unaccomplished, nor can it be wise to allow difficulties to amass and accumulate, if they can be mastered in detail as they present themselves."
Etymology
From un- + accomplished.
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