unloved

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adjective

Not loved.

Opposite
UncommonScrabble 11

Meanings

unloved1

adjectiveunloved (comparative more unloved, superlative most unloved)

comparative more unloved · superlative most unloved

  1. Not loved.

    Then, too, there was the mute appeal of this wee waif alone and unloved in the midst of the horrors of the savage jungle.

    1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 12, in The Beasts of Tarzan
    1 more example

    Kidderminster: Work can start on a new glass-fronted station building (double the size), following the demolition of the dilapidated 1968 structure. Always unloved, it was cheaply assembled by BR to replace a mock Tudor building that survived for nearly 100 years before being infested with dry rot.

    2019 November 6, “Regional News”, in Rail, page 26

unloved2

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of unlove

Synonyms & antonyms

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishloved
  9. Englishunloved

From un- + loved.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Dutch ongeliefd
  • ongeliefdnot loved
Swedish oälskad
  • oälskadnot loved
Cite this entry
APA

unloved. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unloved

MLA

“unloved.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unloved. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unloved,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unloved.

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