unrequited
IPA: ʌnrikwˈaɪtɪd
adjective
- Unanswered; not returned; not reciprocated; not repaid.
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Examples of "unrequited" in Sentences
- I can just see Amy pining for Barack, while Jon Stewart suffers in unrequited love.
- I cried for what I can only describe as an unrequited love for an America that is always just out of our reach.
- With rare and mostly short lived exceptions, most of the characters on Battlestar Galactica experience more of the unrequited part of the phrase unrequited love.
- For some reason, I've also been thinking a lot of Charlie Brown (you know, from Peanuts) and the little red-haired girl that represented the cartoonist's long-term unrequited crush from long ago.
- "But it certainly didn't feel like it at the time", referring to the unrequited loves, an ill-advised brief engagement and other romantic incidents that fill her diary when she was in her twenties.
- No heart will be left unsatisfied; no spirit will mourn in unrequited love, for that happy region is the abode of love – of love without the defilements or the disquietudes of mortality, for there it is an everlasting, pure enjoyment.
- I was also much more awkward back then than even now (and I'm still very awkward today) ... anyway, I made a move on her, which promptly was rejected (remember, awkward), and sent me into three years of depression (aka unrequited love) ...
- Friendship, by contrast, is essentially a kind of relationship grounded in a particular kind of special concern each has for the other as the person she is; and whereas we must make conceptual room for the idea of unrequited love, unrequited friendship is senseless.
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