unrequited

From un- +‎ requited.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈkwaɪ.tɪd/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈkwaɪ.tɪd/, [ˌʌn.ɹɪˈkwaɪ.ɾɪd]

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• IPA^(key): /ˌʌnɹəˈkwaɪtɪd/

unrequited (comparative more unrequited, superlative most unrequited)

1. (now chiefly of a feeling or emotion) Not returned; not reciprocated; not repaid.

   Synonym: unreciprocated

   His expressions of love went unrequited.

   • 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.

• unrequited love