unlove
To lose one's loveTo lose one's love (for someone or something).
» My mother was unloving towards me.
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1 sensesTo lose one's love (for someone or something).
Examples
5 sentencesMy mother was unloving towards me.
Mary's mother is dead, and she feels unloved by her father.
deMarias Mutter ist tot, und von ihrem Vater fühlt sie sich ungeliebt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
He's feeling old and unloved.
Buy undervalued and unloved assets.
What a starved, unloved life she had had—a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
From Middle English unloven, equivalent to un- (reversal prefix) + love (verb).From Middle English unloven, equivalent to un- (reversal prefix) + love (verb).
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Forms
unloves, unloving, unloved, unlovedWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.