unlovable
- adjective
- /ʌnˈlʌvəbl/
- Offensive
- Sometimes I think I might be unlovable.
- feel unlovable
- totally unlovable
- really unlovable
That made me feel like I'm broken and unlovable and unworthy.
- That made me feel like I'm broken and unlovable and unworthy.
- I heard you're a failure and you are unlovable.
- And if someone can't love us, that doesn't make us unlovable.
- Did you sit there thinking, wow, they're inherently unlovable?
- He was unworthy, he was unlovable.
- You know, Jada, when you started today, you said that, you know, this is your journey from being unlovable to trying to find love again.
- If your story is I'm unlovable, you're going to pick partners who treat you poorly.
- But what happens to you when you have that wonderful woman and that love, but your core wound is I'm unlovable.
- He doesn't actually get, he doesn't have to be known for any of his demons and the things that bring him shame and the things he thinks make him unlovable.
- Maybe they were they were made to feel unworthy, unlovable, undeserving.
- I need to be loved or people I'm not, I'm unlovable or people don't love me.
- I felt like, well, just that I'm unlovable that, that I don't deserve love.
- And that is in Mad Men, it's I am unlovable.
- But the love only spares fruit if you give it to someone who is acting unlovable.
- You know what's awesome, bro, is that not only do we know Tim, Tim Poole's a sexless unlovable.
Examples
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There was a part of me that, as a child, nursed feelings of shame and fear, that felt unloved and unlovable.
Fiction book (1993) -
I'm 53 and still trying to overcome the feeling that I am absolutely unlovable.
Blog text (17) -
A mother never thinks her child is going to be the unlovable one.
Fiction book (1996) -
I told you I love you, that makes me unlovable.
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The humans found us unlovable and threw us away.
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But you're not unlovable, child.
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Seek treatment before you become permanently, irreversibly unlovable.
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But in Louis lves' darkest moments, he feared he was unlovable.
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Diehl felt morose, unloved, and unlovable.
Fiction book (1998) -
She often feels unlovable because of her past experiences with rejection.
Antonyms
How Lovable
- US
- Offensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unlovable starts with un- meaning 'not' and uses love meaning 'to love', so it literally means 'not able to be loved' and is used for a person or thing that is hard to love.