- not responded to adequately; not satisfied or fulfilled, as a need, expectation, challenge, etc.: Migrant health centers could address an important unmet need for health services among farmworkers and their families.
- (of a minimum amount) not reached: If the production line is disrupted, the result will be everything from defective products to unmet quotas.
- not personally or physically encountered: This is an essay on my longtime, unmet friend, the mystic Thomas Merton.
- (of a traveler) not greeted or picked up on arrival: Outside the terminal, pushy taxi drivers were vying to get the few unmet passengers into decrepit taxis.
