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 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.

   • 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

• Catalan: no correspost (amor) m
• Chinese:

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

• Dutch: onbeantwoord (nl)
• Finnish: yksipuolinen (fi)
• French: non réciproque (fr), à sens unique (fr)
• German: unerwidert
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• 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)