unrequited

Examples

• All

• Here's a fellow New Yorker who's suffering from unrequited love.

  Café Society (2016)

• People don't have to be gay to understand loss, longing, and unrequited love.

  Academic text (2012)

• It's very easy to do that because you never have to deal with the unrequited love thing again.

• Which, in your case, would be unrequited.

  Destination Wedding (2018)

• Unrequited love is the perfect romantic construct.

  The Romantics (2010)

• I was no stranger to the miseries of unrequited love.

  Fiction book (1997)

• The opera lavishly sentimentalizes unrequited love, with which almost everyone can identify.

  Academic text (1991)

• Rosalie, a servant girl of the de Jarjayes family, is suffering from unrequited love toward Oscar.

  Academic text (2014)

• Is there anything so sad as unrequited love?

• No one warned her what the aftershocks of unrequited love would feel like.

Synonyms

U

unwanted

vsunrequited

120 1.0

People do not like or need it

focuses on one-sided affection rather than general undesirability

U

unanswered

vsunrequited

85 3.0

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

means feelings are not returned rather than merely not replied to

U

unwelcome

vsunrequited

45 4.3

Not wanted and causing upset or trouble

expresses lack of reciprocated feeling rather than causing displeasure

U

unloved

vsunrequited

15 3.4

Not cared for or shown affection

is about a single person's feeling not long-term neglect

J

jilted

vsunrequited

3 7.0

Suddenly left by the person you love

focuses on feelings not being reciprocated rather than abandonment

U

undesired

vsunrequited

2 3.8

Not wanted or welcome

refers to lack of returned feeling rather than being inappropriate

U

unreciprocated

vsunrequited

1 7.5

Not returned or shared by the other person

focuses on feelings, especially romantic ones

U

unbeloved

vsunrequited

9.3

Not loved or cared for by others

is about a one-sided feeling not general absence of care

R

rejected

vsunrequited

2.6

Feeling not wanted after someone says no, especially in love

describes feelings not being returned rather than an active refusal

S

spurned

vsunrequited

6.4

Rejected suddenly by a person you love or want to be with

describes an unreturned feeling rather than an abrupt rejection

Antonyms

R

requited

7.3

A feeling that another person feels in the same way

How Reciprocated

mutual

404 2.8

unrequited

17 8.3

one-sided

26 4.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology