unrequited

English

Etymology

un- +‎ requited

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʌnɹəˈkwaɪtɪd/

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Adjective

unrequited (comparative more unrequited, superlative most unrequited)

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

   Synonym: unreciprocated

   • 1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter VI, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 196:

     Enough for me that I stand on the privilege of a free Scottish-man, and will brook no insult unreturned, and no injury unrequited.

   • 1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter LXI, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 439:

     One of my comrades there—another of those victims of eighteen years of unrequited toil and blighted hopes—was one of the gentlest spirits that ever bore its patient cross in a weary exile: [...]

   • 1912, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 27, in Miss Billy’s Decision:

     To her mind, a girl who would tell of the unrequited love of a man for herself, was unspeakably base.

Derived terms

• unrequited love

Translations

not reciprocated

• Bulgarian: несподелен (nespodelen)
• Catalan: no correspost
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無報答的／无报答的 (wú bàodá-de), (unrequited love) 單相思／单相思 (zh) (dānxiāngsī), 單戀／单恋 (zh) (dānliàn)

• Dutch: onbeantwoord (nl)
• Finnish: yksipuolinen (fi)
• French: non réciproque, à sens unique (fr)
• German: unerwidert
• Greek: ανανταπόδοτος (el) (anantapódotos)
• Hungarian: viszonzatlan (hu)
• Italian: non ricambiato, non corrisposto
• Occitan: non reciproc
• Polish: nieodwzajemniony
• Portuguese: não correspondido
• Russian: (unpaid) неопла́ченный (ru) (neopláčennyj), неразделённый (ru) (nerazdeljónnyj), безотве́тный (ru) (bezotvétnyj)
• Spanish: no correspondido
• Swedish: obesvarad (sv)