unloved
adjective
un·loved
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Definition of unloved
: not loved or cherished
an unloved, abandoned dog unloved houses My job is to lighten the spirit and love the heck out of people who feel really unloved.— Wynonna Judd
Examples of unloved in a Sentence
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Unfortunately, if that doesn’t happen, the person in the institution is left feeling unloved and abandoned. — Jeanne Phillips, SFChronicle.com, "Dear Abby: How to help school-dropout friend with marriage on rocks," 27 July 2019 Feeling marginalised and unloved, Dybala will likely leave the Allianz Stadium this summer. — SI.com, "Summer Signings: Predicting Where 30 of the Most Talked About Players Will End Up for 2019/20," 22 June 2019 The lanes were unloved in Ohio when Rec Room co-owner Sam Solomon found them. — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, "SummerTimeOut: Duckpin bowling at Rec Room in Fort Lauderdale," 20 June 2019 An automotive icon rides out on an unloved model, perhaps never to be seen again. — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, "The VW Beetle Is Dead Because They Made It Too Good," 13 Sep. 2018 More from the pit: Give B&D points for chicken and turkey, usually the unloved stepchildren of the pit. — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, "52 Weeks of BBQ: B&D Icehouse," 15 June 2018 Millions of devices with little to no active maintenance are now permanently online, enabling the creation of massive botnets as the devices go unpatched and unloved. — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, "Microsoft’s bid to secure the Internet of Things: Custom Linux, custom chips, Azure," 16 Apr. 2018 An unwanted and unloved child never officially recognized by her father, Violette had spent the war years living off the black market, trafficking and schlepping heavy loads of meat and butter from Normandy to Paris restaurants every week. — Longreads, "When Sartre and Beauvoir Started a Magazine," 10 Apr. 2018 So, why all this sunsetting? Why can’t tech companies just make a clean break, pull the plug on products that are faulty, unloved or misguided and just move on? — Matt Haber, San Francisco Chronicle, "Newspeak: The golden glow of old tech," 7 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'unloved.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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unloved
adjective
English Language Learners Definition of unloved
: not loved by anyone
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