Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not given, rewarded, or felt in return.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not requited; not recompensed; not reciprocated.
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- adjective
Unanswered ; notreturned ; notreciprocated ; notrepaid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not returned in kind
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Examples
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I can just see Amy pining for Barack, while Jon Stewart suffers in unrequited love.
5 Movies That Should Never, Ever Be Remade | Fandomania 2010
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With rare and mostly short lived exceptions, most of the characters on Battlestar Galactica experience more of the unrequited part of the phrase unrequited love.
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For some reason, I've also been thinking a lot of Charlie Brown (you know, from Peanuts) and the little red-haired girl that represented the cartoonist's long-term unrequited crush from long ago.
elfpvke Diary Entry elfpvke 2003
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No heart will be left unsatisfied; no spirit will mourn in unrequited love, for that happy region is the abode of love – of love without the defilements or the disquietudes of mortality, for there it is an everlasting, pure enjoyment.
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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Friendship, by contrast, is essentially a kind of relationship grounded in a particular kind of special concern each has for the other as the person she is; and whereas we must make conceptual room for the idea of unrequited love, unrequited friendship is senseless.
Friendship Helm, Bennett 2009
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I cried for what I can only describe as an unrequited love for an America that is always just out of our reach.
The Real America Glenn Beck 2003
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I cried for what I can only describe as an unrequited love for an America that is always just out of our reach.
The Real America Glenn Beck 2003
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"But it certainly didn't feel like it at the time", referring to the unrequited loves, an ill-advised brief engagement and other romantic incidents that fill her diary when she was in her twenties.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Emma Soames 2011
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I was also much more awkward back then than even now (and I'm still very awkward today) ... anyway, I made a move on her, which promptly was rejected (remember, awkward), and sent me into three years of depression (aka unrequited love) ...
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I was also much more awkward back then than even now (and I'm still very awkward today) ... anyway, I made a move on her, which promptly was rejected (remember, awkward), and sent me into three years of depression (aka unrequited love) ...
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