Meaning & use
unrequited
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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