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[ uhn-ri-kwahy-tid ] / ˌʌn rɪˈkwaɪ tɪd / SEE SYNONYMS FOR unrequited ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivenot returned or reciprocated: unrequited love. not avenged or retaliated: an unrequited wrong. not repaid or satisfied. Origin of unrequitedFirst recorded in 1535–45; un-1 + requite + -ed2 Words nearby unrequitedunrepeatable, unrepentant, unreported, unrepresentative, unrepresented, unrequited, unreserve, unreserved, unresisting, unresolved, unresponsive Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for unrequitedThe convent, obviously, but also the court—and even her unrequited longing for the elusive lady of her sonnets. Sor Juana: Mexico’s Most Erotic Poet and Its Most Dangerous Nun|Katie Baker|November 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST To see two girls kissing on screen, singing about unrequited love between two women? t.A.T.u’s ‘All the Things She Said’ Turns 10|Tricia Romano|August 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST It was unrequited love … They dated for a while, but she was not for him. L.A. Policewoman on Trial for Murdering Her Ex’s Wife|Christine Pelisek|March 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST “It was not just an obsession, a one-sided romance of unrequited love,” said Overland. L.A. Policewoman on Trial for Murdering Her Ex’s Wife|Christine Pelisek|March 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST
And of course I loved the Lancelot story because it is all about longing and unrequited love. Only Six Books: Excerpt From Jeanette Winterson’s New Memoir|Jeanette Winterson|March 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST An arrow from the fatal quiver made him mad with unrequited love for the nymph Daphne. Correggio|Estelle M. Hurll The despair of unrequited love was thrice intensified by jealousy. Robert Orange|John Oliver Hobbes What did it matter if, beyond that door, there were unrequited love and petty gossip, and even tragedy? The Breaking Point|Mary Roberts Rinehart Laugh and look joyous, beautiful eyes, you have saved me from an unrequited love. Frederick The Great and His Family|L. Muhlbach Nothing he ate agreed with him and I felt sure it must be a bad case of unrequited love. Cupid's Middleman|Edward B. Lent
British Dictionary definitions for unrequited
adjective(of love, affection, etc) not reciprocated or returned Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to unrequitedunreturned |