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unreciprocated

  • a word derived from reciprocated.
    reciprocated
    adjective
    given, done, or felt in return.

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"It's about my personal experience with unreciprocated love," says singer Johannes Pietsch, who performs under the name JJ.

From BBC May 16, 2025

“He’s a dreamer and a lover. He’s obsessed with this unreciprocated love and that kills him,” said Garcia-Rulfo.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 25, 2024

Since the start of the summer, the administration has embarked on a largely unreciprocated push to talk with Beijing, establishing working groups and sending three cabinet-level officials and its top climate envoy to Beijing.

From Reuters Oct. 6, 2023

To be clear, this is no slam on a city I persist in loving beyond reason even when the affection seems unreciprocated.

From New York Times Sep. 15, 2021

They were alternately morbid and convivial in style, and were concerned largely with death, the rapture of the wine-cup, or the bitterness of unreciprocated attachment.

From A Romantic Young Lady by Robert Grant