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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unloved
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ As a child I felt very unloved.
▪ He was the unloved son of an unhappy marriage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And among unloved tasks, household chores and errands, cleaning is one of the most hated.
▪ At heart, all these stories reiterate the rescue of the unloved son.
▪ Feeling unloved, he half expected to be hated.
▪ He is the unloved schoolboy son of an unhappy marriage; she is an orphan.
▪ If that is the case, the head of a school is no different from the head of any other unloved institution.
▪ People who feel unloved and depressed often alleviate those stressful feelings by going out and buying things.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unloved

late 14c., from un- (1) "not" + past participle of love (v.). A verb, unlove (with un- (2)) is attested from late 14c. Old English unlofod meant "unpraised."\nHe that can love unloved again,\n
Hath better store of love than brain\n
[Robert Ayton (1570-1638)]

Wiktionary
unloved

a. Pertaining to someone or something not loved.

WordNet
unloved

adj. not loved [ant: loved]

Wikipedia
Unloved

Unloved is a 2001 Japanese romance film directed by Kunitoshi Manda, starring Yoko Moriguchi, Shunsuke Matsuoka and Tōru Nakamura. It won the Grand Rail d'Or prize and the Future Talent prize at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Usage examples of "unloved".

Jeremy said, showing a small plastic bag full, both trank and the unloved nutrient packets, as best he guessed.

Peters had been an ordinary unlovable sort of twirp, I supposed, and he was being buried in an ordinary unloved way.

There was no one in the grove to whom she was more than renegade Mother, rebel unloved and uncherished, ready victim, unwelcome intimate.

The unused boat so quickly acquires that abandoned, unloved, uncherished look.

Miss Agatha Girton, who lived there, unhonoured and unloved, with her ward, whom the village honoured and loved without exception.

Golden banners and flags with portraits of the Blessed Virgin, girls in navy blue pleated skirts: it all happens in the unloved Piarist Church.

The biggest problem in relationships occurs when a woman shares her upset feelings and, as a result, a man feels unloved.

Does she think that it is less shameful for a woman to abandon herself to the desires of a man unknown and unloved than to receive a present from an esteemed friend, and particularly at the eve of finding herself in the street, entirely destitute in the middle of a foreign city, amongst people whose language she cannot even speak?

The bicycles obstructing the way, the unloved and unwashed stair carpet, the large and perplexing stain on the elderly wallpaper.

Time to sit at the gurgling Wurlitzer beneath the streets and like that unloved phantom of the lower depths to let a single tear flow down your brutish but sensitive face.

Unloved and despised, you will howl out your miserable life to the end of days.

The Stinnes of the KGB didn't come West — not as defectors, not as agents, and especially not as solitaries who'd spend the rest of their days unrewarded, unloved, and uninvolved with the job, acting out a role in which they had no belief.

And now the Soviet Union was dead, and its successor state crippled, and the distant and unloved children of Moscow left largely on their own, all of them governed by an echo of what was gone.

They would return to unwanted jobs, unloved families, unchosen friends, to drawing rooms, evening clothes, cocktail glasses and movies, to unadmitted pain, murdered hope, desire left unreached, left hanging silently over a path on which no step was taken, to days of effort not to think, not to say, to forget and give in and give up.