unloved
/ənlˈʌvd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.79 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not loved.
verb
simple past and past participle of unlove
Example Sentences
- "Then, too, there was the mute appeal of this wee waif alone and unloved in the midst of the horrors of the savage jungle."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English loved English unloved From un- + loved.
Inflected Forms
more unloved (comparative)
most unloved (superlative)