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Unrealized

Definition: Unrealized

Unrealized

Adjective

1. Of persons; marked by failure to realize full potentialities; "unfulfilled and uneasy men"; "unrealized dreams and ambitions".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unrealized" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references)


Synonyms: Unrealized

Synonyms: unfulfilled (adj), unrealised (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unrealized

Specialty definitions using "unrealized": EveningPlums. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Unrealized

DomainTitle

Books

  • Industrialization in Papua New Guinea: Unrealized Potential? (Economic Report, No 5) (reference)

  • Learning Disability: The Unrealized Potential (reference)

  • Science, Animals, and Evolution: Reflections on Some Unrealized Potentials of Biology and Medicine (Contributions in Philosophy) (reference)

  • Unbuilt Roads: 107 Unrealized Projects (reference)

  • Unified Mental Health Systems: Utopia Unrealized (New Directions for Mental Health Services, No. 18) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Unrealized

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The country had attempted to privatize several industries in the past, but lack of planning and poorly implemented strategies left those initial privatization ambitions unrealized. (references)

Minorities

Cyprus

However, it is not clear whether Turkish Cypriot legal provisions exist to facilitate the transfer of Greek Cypriot- and Maronite-owned property in the north to heirs in the south, and the practical effect of the 1998 announcement remained unrealized. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Unrealized

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981The civil rights revolution freed all Americans, black and white, but its full promise still remains unrealized.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Unrealized

"Unrealized" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unrealized" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4153,521

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Unrealized

Expressions using "unrealized": unrealized dream unrealized gains unrealized loss. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unrealized

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

net unrealized appreciation

12

gain unrealized

4

appreciation employer esop plan securities termination unrealized

3

gain losses securities trading unrealized

2

appreciation esop net termination unrealized

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unrealized

Language Translations for "unrealized"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i pazbatuar (unaccomplished, unapplied, unexecuted, unfulfilled, unmitigated, unperformed). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

неосъществен (unachieved, unfulfilled), неосъзнат. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

未实现 (unfulfilled). (various references)

   

Czech

  

neuskuteènìný. (various references)

   

Danish

  

urealiseret tab (embedded loss, unrealized loss), ikke-realiseret gevinst (unrealized gains). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

latente meerwaarden (unrealized gains), latent verlies (embedded loss, unrealized loss). (various references)

   

French

  

plus value latente (unrealized gains), moins value latente (unrealized loss), changement d'évaluation non réalisé de comptes financiers (unrealized valuation change in financial terms). (various references)

   

German

  

unerfüllt (unaccomplished, unfulfilled). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απραγματοποίητοσ (unfulfilled, unrealistic). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

beteljesületlen (unfulfilled). (various references)

   

Italian

  

plusvalori latenti (unrealized gains), perdita teorica (embedded loss, unrealized loss), perdita latente (embedded loss, unrealized loss), cambiamento di valutazione non realizzato in termini finanziari (unrealized valuation change in financial terms). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

不縁 (divorce, unrealized marriage). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふえ" (amplification, divorce, elaboration, expatiation, unrealized marriage). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

실헨되지 않". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ealizedunray

   

Portuguese

  

não realizado (unaccomplished, unartful, unfulfilled, unperformed), não apreciado, irrealizado. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

неосуществленный (frustrate, unfulfilled, unperformed). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neostvaren (unacted, unclaimed, unfulfilled), neispunjen (unfilled, unfulfilled, unredeemed). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

no realizado. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

idrak edilmemiş, gerçekleştirilmemiş, anlaşılmamış (undigested, unexplained, unperceived). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

нездійснений (frustrate). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

chưa thực hiện không thấy rõ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Unrealized

Misspellings

"Unrealized" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unbrutalised, undetailed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Unrealized"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "unrealized" (pronounced unrē"ulī'zd)
6-ē" u l ī' z didealized.
5-u l ī' z danalyzed, annualized, brutalized, capitalized, caramelized, catalyzed, centralized, civilized, collateralized, commercialized, criminalized, crystallized, decentralized, demobilized, demoralized, denationalized, departmentalized, destabilized, editorialized, equalized, federalized, fertilized, fictionalized, finalized, formalized, fossilized, generalized, globalized, hospitalized, hydrolyzed, idolized, immobilized, industrialized, internalized, legalized, liberalized, localized, marginalized, materialized, memorialized, mobilized, monopolized, nationalized, naturalized, neutralized, normalized, paralyzed, penalized, personalized, professionalized, radicalized, rationalized, recapitalized, regionalized, revitalized, scandalized, serialized, socialized, specialized, stabilized, sterilized, symbolized, tantalized, trivialized, undercapitalized, underutilized, utilized, vandalized, visualized.
4-l ī' z dcreolized, realized, stylized.
3-ī' z daccessorized, advertised, agonized, aluminized, amortized, anglicized, antagonized, apologized, authorized, balkanized, burglarized, capsized, carbonized, categorized, characterized, circumcised, collectivized, colonized, colorized, compromised, computerized, containerized, criticized, customized, demilitarized, democratized, demonized, denuclearized, depressurized, deputized, desensitized, digitized, disenfranchised, disorganized, downsized, dramatized, emphasized, energized, enfranchised, epitomized, eulogized, excised, exercised, familiarized, fantasized, galvanized, harmonized, hellenized, heroized, homogenized, humanized, hypnotized, hypothesized, immunized, improvised, ironized, itemized, jeopardized, legitimized, lionized, magnetized, maximized, mechanized, memorized, mesmerized, metastasized, midsized, militarized, miniaturized, minimized, mischaracterized, modernized, motorized, nonunionized, organized, ostracized, outsized, oxidized, pasteurized, patronized, plagiarized, polarized, politicized, polymerized, popularized, pressurized, prioritized, privatized, proselytized, publicized, pulverized, randomized, reauthorized, recognized, reorganized, revolutionized, romanticized, rubberized, sanitized, scrutinized, securitized, sensitized, standardized, stigmatized, subsidized, summarized, supervised, sympathized, synchronized, synthesized, televised, terrorized, theorized, traumatized, unamortized, unauthorized, undersized, unexercised, unionized, unorganized, unrecognized, unsubsidized, unsupervised, urbanized, vaporized, westernized, winterized.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Unrealized

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-n-r-u-z"

-2 letters: realized, renailed, underlie.

-3 letters: aliened, aliener, aliunde, delaine, diurnal, dualize, launder, leadier, learned, lurdane, realize, redline, relined, unaired, unideal, unrazed, uranide, uredial.

-4 letters: aedile, aedine, aeried, aldrin, alined, aliner, aneled, ariled, audile, aulder, darnel, dealer, dearie, denari, denial, denier, derail, dialer, dueler, durian, earned, eluder, endear, endure, enured, inured, laired, lander, larine, lauder.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-n-r-u-z"
 

+1 letter: neutralized.

 

+2 letters: denaturalize, denuclearize, unverbalized.

 

+3 letters: denaturalized, denaturalizes, denuclearized, denuclearizes, universalized.

 

+4 letters: denuclearizing, republicanized.

 

+5 letters: deindustrialize, reindustrialize.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unrealized


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 72 65 61 6C 69 7A 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    .-.    .    .-    .-..    ..    --..    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101100 01101001 01111010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#114 &#101 &#97 &#108 &#105 &#122 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0072 0065 0061 006C 0069 007A 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

55808471677875927170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Quotations: Speeches
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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