unloved
- adjective
- /ʌnˈlʌvd/
- She felt completely unloved after her friends stopped inviting her to their gatherings.
- feeling unloved
I felt very unloved in a lot of different aspects.
- I felt very unloved in a lot of different aspects.
- I just, I felt, I guess I felt unloved, you know, even though I didn't realize it.
- Careless piles, dusty board games, unloved dolls.
- A lot of things LED up to that moment actually feeling unwanted, unloved.
- I wouldn't never want this person I love to misunderstand me and feel so unloved.
- We can't change the narcissistic people and they can't get rid of those scared, rejected, unloved parts of themselves.
- He may not understand how him not engaging in those things is making you feel unloved.
- Or fear of being made to feel less than worthwhile, Or fear of being unloved or betrayed, or of being one huge disappointment to anyone who matters.
- How important it is to love your family because that's what's at the core of it, is what happens when you're not loved, What the lengths that people go to when they're unloved.
- He's a very sad loser and here we see some of the reason for that sadness is that people turn into monsters when they feel that they're completely unloved.
- And that's, you know, that's, you know, cuz all a lot of my life I felt either unloved or unlovable.
- I don't care if we have a, you know, the struggle, but I don't want, you know, just to fuck up somehow and create an environment where a kid feels unloved.
- Just like sitting, being unloved and unused Mascara.
Examples
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Growing up in a large family, he often felt unloved and overlooked by his parents.
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Many stray animals are unloved and in need of a caring home.
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I felt very unloved in a lot of different aspects.
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I know what it's like to be unloved.
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I felt unloved and unwanted.
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Dorothy grew up alone and unloved and never really had a childhood.
Academic text (2000) -
No child should ever be alone, unloved, and left to fend for himself.
Fiction book (1990) -
I feel anxious, I feel unloved, I feel disconnected, I feel afraid.
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I'm also feeling very unloved and unappreciated by my husband right at the moment.
Blog text (34) -
In the emotionally abusive family, the child feels unloved and unwanted.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
Feeling very sad and alone because someone you love or something important is missing
Having no love or warm feelings
Not looked after and left in bad condition
Not loved or cared for by others
Not cared for or looked after so it becomes damaged
Antonyms
How Loved
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unloved is made from the prefix un- and loved, where un- means 'not' and loved comes from the verb 'love', so it literally means 'not loved'. Like in unhappy, the un- part makes the opposite, which is why unloved describes people or things that lack care or affection.