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fulfilling

[fool-fil-ing] / fʊlˈfɪl ɪŋ /
ADJECTIVE
effectual
Synonyms
STRONG
effective efficacious
WEAK
accomplishing achieving adequate binding capable conclusive decisive determinative effecting efficient forcible in force lawful legal licit potent powerful practicable productive qualified serviceable sound strong successful telling useful valid virtuous workable
Antonyms
STRONG
incapable unproductive useless
WEAK
impotent ineffectual unsuccessful weak
ADJECTIVE
operating
Synonyms
STRONGEST
performing running
STRONG
accomplishing administering conducting contriving determining directing driving executing finishing guiding maintaining managing manipulating moving ordering practicing regulating revolving serving spinning supervising sustaining transacting turning using wielding
WEAK
at work
ADJECTIVE
performing
Synonyms
STRONGEST
operating
STRONG
achieving acting doing effecting
WEAK
carrying-out
ADJECTIVE
realizing
Synonyms
STRONG
accomplishing actualizing attaining completing consummating doing perfecting performing reaching
ADJECTIVE
rewarding
Synonyms
STRONGEST
advantageous fruitful gratifying productive profitable satisfying valuable worthwhile
STRONG
edifying
WEAK
gainful remunerative
Antonyms
STRONGEST
impotent unfruitful unproductive valueless worthless
WEAK
troubling upsetting
ADJECTIVE
satisfactory
Synonyms
STRONGEST
adequate decent fair good gratifying satisfying solid suitable tolerable valid
WEAK
A-OK all right ample appeasing assuaging assuasive average cogent comfortable competent cool delighting enough good enough groovy passable peachy pleasing sound sufficing unexceptional up to snuff
Antonyms
STRONGEST
bad inadequate inappropriate insufficient intolerable unacceptable unreal unreliable unsuitable
WEAK
unfit unsatisfactory
NOUN
enforcement
Synonyms
STRONGEST
administration application imposition prosecution
STRONG
coercion compulsion constraint duress exaction execution impulsion insistence lash obligation prescription pressure reinforcement spur whip
WEAK
carrying-out compulsory law enforcing martial law necessitation
Antonyms
WEAK
abandon disregard forgetfulness neglect renunciation slight
NOUN
execution
Synonyms
STRONG
accomplishment achievement administration completion consummation delivery discharge effect enactment enforcement implementation operation performance prosecution realization rendering style
WEAK
doing nuts and bolts
Antonyms
STRONG
defeat failure hold imprisonment neglect retention
WEAK
abandoning disregard forgetting ignorance leaving

Example Sentences

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The artist is intent on fulfilling that promise.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

My grandfather died in 1973 without ever fulfilling that promise, his life having been consumed by the internal and external conflicts that forged modern China.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Though the affluent enclave that’s located less than 14 miles north of L.A. had the education factor Farr was looking for, the mother of three was fearful it wouldn’t be fulfilling enough in other ways.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

It’s a match made in heaven — simple yet hearty and fulfilling.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

It was unexpectedly fulfilling, Caesar said, to witness the complete product, in contrast to the disembodied toil on Randall.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead