Meaning & use

unrequited

adjective·Advanced

Describing love or affection that is not returned by the person it is directed toward.

See it in a sentence

His unrequited love for his childhood friend lasted for nearly ten years.

The novel follows a young poet suffering from unrequited affection for his neighbor.

A note on using this word

Unrequited almost always describes romantic feelings and rarely appears outside that context.

Words with a similar meaning

one-sided

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Words with an opposite meaning

mutualreciprocated

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