Unrequired vs Unrequited - What's the difference?
unrequired | unrequited |
Not required.
*{{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 29, author=Ian Urbina, title=Decision Is Likely to Spur Voter ID Laws in More States, work=New York Times
, passage=Mr. Goldman said that poll workers might ask for unrequired identification and that citizens might not vote because they mistakenly thought that they could not do so if they did not have certain forms of identification. }}
Unanswered; not returned; not reciprocated; not repaid.
* 1820 , , The Monastery , ch. 20,
* 1872 , , Roughing It , ch. 61,
* 1912 , , Miss Billy's Decision , ch. 27,
As adjectives the difference between unrequired and unrequited
is that unrequired is not required while unrequited is unanswered; not returned; not reciprocated; not repaid.unrequired
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unrequited
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(en adjective)- I stand on the privilege of a free Scotchman, and will brook no insult unreturned, and no injury unrequited .
- 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.
- To her mind, a girl who would tell of the unrequited love of a man for herself, was unspeakably base.
