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  1. unrequited love

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Not reciprocated or returned in kind: unrequited love.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Not requited; not recompensed; not reciprocated.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Unanswered; not returned; not reciprocated; not repaid.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. not returned in kind

Examples

  • “I can just see Amy pining for Barack, while Jon Stewart suffers in unrequited love.”

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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.”

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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

  • “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

  • “I cried for what I can only describe as an unrequited love for an America that is always just out of our reach.”

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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.”

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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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  • “It's called unrequited love and it happens all the time.”

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  • “What I think many of us are left with in the wake of all this is extreme frustration, a sense of helplessness, and in many respects, a kind of unrequited love.”

    Jake Brewer: Hindsight at 20/25: A Call to the Post-9/11 Millennial Generation

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