unrequited
Given without response
Unrequited describes something given but not returned, almost always love.
Unrequited love is felt deeply by one person but not reciprocated by the object of affection: He spent years nursing an unrequited passion for his best friend's wife.
The word carries a tone of romantic melancholy, suggesting longing without hope of fulfillment.
Unfairly weighted toward one
- unreciprocatedNot given back
- unreturnedNot given back
- unansweredLacking any response
- crushCompress with force
infatuation · adoration · devotion · limerence · obsession · pining · secret · unspoken
Lacking any response
- unreturnedNot given back
- unsatisfiedNot yet content
- incompleteLacking necessary parts
- unrealizedNot made actual
thwarted · fruitless · futile · hollow · void · unmet · unattained · frustrated
Intense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- piningAching with prolonged desire
- achingExperiencing dull pain
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
sorrow · anguish · melancholy · wistfulness · despair · torment · grief · misery
Able to be sacrificed
- nonessentialNot required or needed
- unneededNot required at all
- extraneousNot pertinent or essential
- gratuitousGiven without necessity
incidental · peripheral · expendable · ancillary · supplementary · accessory · secondary · auxiliary
one-sided
Unfairly weighted toward one
- unreciprocatedNot given back
- unreturnedNot given back
- unansweredLacking any response
crush · infatuation · adoration · devotion · limerence · obsession · pining · secret · unspoken · undeclared
unanswered
Lacking any response
- unreturnedNot given back
- unsatisfiedNot yet content
- incompleteLacking necessary parts
unrealized · thwarted · fruitless · futile · hollow · void · unmet · unattained · frustrated · denied
longing
Intense, persistent desire
heartache · sorrow · anguish · melancholy · wistfulness · despair · torment · grief · misery · bitterness
dispensable
Able to be sacrificed
- nonessentialNot required or needed
- unneededNot required at all
- extraneousNot pertinent or essential
gratuitous · incidental · peripheral · expendable · ancillary · supplementary · accessory · secondary · auxiliary · additive
- unfulfilledunfulfilled, unsatisfied, dissatisfied, unmet, incomplete
- infatuationcrush, infatuation, infatuated, smitten, first love
- shippingshipping, cargo ships, container ships, freight, package
- rejectedrejected, spurned, rebuffed, snubbed, refused
- fanfictionfanfiction, fan fiction, fic, fanfic, slash
unrequitedrequited
Returned in kind
mutual · reciprocated · reciprocal · returned · shared
- unrequited loveRomantic feelings not returned
- unrequited longing