unrequited

unrequited

English

Etymology

un- +‎ requited

Pronunciation

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Adjective

unrequited (comparative more unrequited, superlative most unrequited)

1. Unanswered; not returned; not reciprocated; not repaid.
   • 1820, Sir Walter Scott, The Monastery, ch. 20,

     I stand on the privilege of a free Scotchman, and will brook no insult unreturned, and no injury unrequited.

   • 1872, Mark Twain, Roughing It, ch. 61,

     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, Miss Billy's Decision, ch. 27,

     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

Catalan: no correspost (amor) m Chinese: Mandarin: 無報答的, 无报答的 (wú bàodá-de), (unrequited love) 單相思 (zh), 单相思 (zh) (dānxiāngsī), 單戀 (zh), 单恋 (zh) (dānliàn) Dutch: onbeantwoord (nl) Finnish: yksipuolinen (fi) French: non réciproque (fr), à sens unique (fr) German: unerwidert

Greek: ανανταπόδοτος (el) (anantapódotos) Hungarian: viszonzatlan (hu) Italian: non ricambiato, non corrisposto (unrequited love) Occitan: non reciproc Portuguese: não correspondido Russian: (unpaid) неопла́ченный (ru) (neopláčennyj), неразделённый (ru) (nerazdeljónnyj), безотве́тный (ru) (bezotvétnyj) Spanish: no correspondido (amor)