Unrequited vs Requited - What's the difference?
unrequited | requited |
Unanswered; not returned; not reciprocated; not repaid.
* 1820 , , The Monastery , ch. 20,
* 1872 , , Roughing It , ch. 61,
* 1912 , , Miss Billy's Decision , ch. 27,
(requite)
To return in kind; To repay; to recompense; to reward.
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 3
*:But, remember—
*:For that's my business to you,—that you three
*:From Milan did supplant good Prospero;
*:Expos'd unto the sea, which hath requit it,
*:Him, and his innocent child: for which foul deed
*:The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have
*:Incens'd the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
*:Against your peace.
* 1925 , Franz Kafka, The Trial'', ''Vintage Books (London) , pg. 91:
To retaliate.
As an adjective unrequited
is unanswered; not returned; not reciprocated; not repaid.As a verb requited is
(requite).unrequited
English
Adjective
(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.
Derived terms
* unrequited loverequited
English
Verb
(head)requite
English
Alternative forms
*(archaic) requitVerb
(en-verb)- He bowed slightly to K.'s uncle, who appeared very flattered to make this new acquaintance, yet, being by nature incapable of expressing obligation, requited the Clerk of the Court's words with a burst of embarrassed but raucous laughter.