reciprocated
given, done, or felt in return: When I greeted the lady who walked by my house every morning, she looked right through me as if I were invisible, with no reciprocated response.
given and received, or equally engaged in, by both parties; mutual: In its most developed form, love occurs within a reciprocated relationship with another person.When he created his export business, his mission was to build a reciprocated trust within an honest and sustaining working relationship with artisans.
the simple past tense and past participle of reciprocate.
Origin of reciprocated
1Other words from reciprocated
- un·re·cip·ro·cat·ed, adjective
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How to use reciprocated in a sentence
The loyalty she had assumed was mutual was looking to be suspiciously unreciprocated.
Joan Rivers's Trailblazing, Troubled, and Complicated Role in Late-Night TV | Kevin Fallon | September 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs important, it ignores the very real and unreciprocated distance that the Palestinians have traveled in accepting Israel.
Of Herrings and Elephants: Benny Morris and "Palestinian Rejectionism" | Daniel Levy | April 16, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe mere unreciprocated physical residue of my passion remained—an exasperation between us.
Tono Bungay | H. G. WellsThe tragedy of love is not (what it is thought to be) the unreciprocated love, but the meagerly returned love.
The Kempton-Wace Letters | Jack LondonSuez has ruined our shipping interests; an unreciprocated free trade is ruining our commerce.
Mount Royal, Volume 3 of 3 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Nor was this friendship unreciprocated, for his host took a wonderful fancy to John Niel.
Jess | H. Rider HaggardAnd for this also all the more does he tremble as he thinks of the possibility of its being unreciprocated.
The Lone Ranche | Captain Mayne Reid
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