unrequited
/ʌnrɪˈkwʌɪtɪd
/adjective
(Of a feeling, especially love) not returned: he’s been pining with unrequited love...
- But beyond the public turmoil lies a private, backstage world of unrequited love, secret affairs and insecurity.
- Where has my sense of romance, of unrequited love gone?
- The way he obsesses about her, the way he berates her, the way he trembles when he calls her evil: this must be unrequited love.
Derivatives
unrequitedly
- They were all beautiful young women but none looked as fragile as the young Princess Crystal nor as flirtatious as Violet and at least one would love him unrequitedly.
- While I understand that Lance was deeply and unrequitedly in love with Raychel, I do not understand how Lance profits from Raychel's death?
- Scion shared his wishes to learn more of the world first-hand to Kara unrequitedly.
unrequitedness
- I will bring up the common theme of unrequitedness in this weblog many times, and hopefully people will relate.
- And most of them have opinions about the difficulty of making art, the melancholy of getting older, the miseries of unrequitedness, etc.
- Flirting seems inextricably entwined with some sense of unavailability or unrequitedness.