fulfilled
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Satisfied or happy because one's desires, expectations, or needs have been met: Feeling content and complete, often because a goal, ambition, or purpose has been achieved.
- Carried out or brought to realization: Completed or accomplished, especially in a way that brings a sense of satisfaction or perfection.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- After years of hard work, she felt truly fulfilled in her career.
- Helping others gives him a deep sense of fulfilled purpose.
- The project was not just finished; it was fulfilled beyond our expectations.
Advanced Usage
- "to be fulfilled": To experience a state of contentment and satisfaction from achieving something meaningful.
- He believes his life has been fulfilled through his family and community work.
- "self-fulfilled": Having achieved one's own potential or desires independently.
- She is a self-fulfilled artist, creating work purely for her own satisfaction.
Variants and Related Words
- Fulfill (verb): To bring to completion or reality; to carry out a promise, duty, or desire.
- He worked hard to fulfill his childhood dream.
- Fulfillment (noun): The achievement of something desired, promised, or predicted; a feeling of satisfaction.
- She finds great fulfillment in her volunteer work.
- Fulfilling (adjective): Providing happiness and satisfaction.
- Teaching is a very fulfilling profession.
Synonyms
- Satisfied: Content because one's wishes or needs have been met.
- Accomplished: Successfully completed or achieved.
- Contented: Happy and at ease.
Antonyms
- Unfulfilled: Not satisfied or not carried out.
- Frustrated: Feeling upset or annoyed due to inability to achieve something.
- Incomplete: Not finished or whole.
Related Phrases
- A sense of fulfillment: A feeling of happiness and satisfaction from achieving something.
- Completing the marathon gave her an incredible sense of fulfillment.
- Fulfill a role/function: To perform a duty or purpose adequately.
- This new software will fulfill a critical function in our system.
Adjective
- completed to perfection