unreciprocated

Examples

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• Sexual availability and unreciprocated sexual acts, such as oral sex, were not found to be degrading.

  Academic text (2005)

• Indeed, unreciprocated affectionate expressions can be traumatic events in personal relationships (see Floyd & Burgoon, 1999).

  Academic text (2003)

• As this suggests, Americans are reluctant to accept casualties only in cases where their foreign policy goals are unreciprocated humanitarian interests.

  Academic text (1999)

• Simultaneously, this leftist president was putting pressure on Israel to continue making unreciprocated concessions to its Arab enemies; the same people who plot another Holocaust.

  Blog text (4)

• Importantly, recent works agree for the most part on a comprehensive general definition of sexual harassment as any unsolicited and unreciprocated behavior focusing on an individual's sex rather than his or her work status.

  Academic text (1994)

• In "Oe versus Dog Bamboo," the narrator, Oe, confesses that his love for Yuki Kara is unreciprocated.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Without ever relating them to U.S. gestures, Cuba did undertake some important (and largely unreciprocated) reforms, loosening restrictions on family and some professional travel, relaxing residency requirements for writers and artists, and continuing the economic openings.

  Academic text (2007)

• The Obama administration's unreciprocated attempts at engagement have exposed Tehran's intransigence, accentuated Iran's deep internal divides, and created an unprecedented degree of international cooperation to counter its nuclear program.

  Academic text (2011)

• His love for her was unreciprocated, leaving him heartbroken and alone.

• She felt unreciprocated affection from her friends, who never seemed to return her kindness.

Synonyms

U

unanswered

vsunreciprocated

85 3.0

Not returned by the other person, as in love or feelings

covers any feeling or action that is not returned by another person

U

unrequited

vsunreciprocated

17 8.3

Feeling love for someone who does not love you back

is the general term for any feeling or action not returned

U

unloved

vsunreciprocated

15 3.4

Not cared for or shown affection

focuses on the general absence of care rather than a single returned act

R

rejected

vsunreciprocated

2.6

Feeling not wanted after someone says no, especially in love

involves active refusal rather than simple lack of return

U

unbeloved

vsunreciprocated

9.3

Not loved or cared for by others

describes lack of being loved rather than the act of not returning feelings

Antonyms

R

reciprocative

8.1

Done by each person or group to the other in return

How Reciprocated

mutual

404 2.8

reciprocatory

8.8

unreciprocated

1 7.5

one-sided

26 4.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology