unrequited
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈkwaɪ.tɪd/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈkwaɪ.tɪd/, [ˌʌn.ɹɪˈkwaɪ.ɾɪd]
- IPA(key): /ˌʌnɹəˈkwaɪtɪd/
Adjective
[edit]unrequited (comparative more unrequited, superlative most unrequited)
- 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
[edit]Translations
[edit]not reciprocated
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