Adjective: unloved
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more unloved |
| Superlative | most unloved |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
Adjectives inflected like unloved
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *né
3. Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
4. Proto-Germanic *un-
5. Proto-West Germanic *un-
6. Old English un-
7. Middle English un-
8. English un-
9. English loved
10. English unloved
11. From un- + loved.