Word family noun love lover loveliness. lovey adjective lovable ≠ unlovable loveless lovely loving unloved verb love adverb lovingly
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishunlovedun‧loved /ʌnˈlʌvd/ adjective LOVE#not loved by anyoneExamples from the Corpus
unloved• As a child I felt very unloved.• People who feel unloved and depressed often alleviate those stressful feelings by going out and buying things.• Feeling unloved, he half expected to be hated.• If that is the case, the head of a school is no different from the head of any other unloved institution.• He is the unloved schoolboy son of an unhappy marriage; she is an orphan.• He was the unloved son of an unhappy marriage.• At heart, all these stories reiterate the rescue of the unloved son.• And among unloved tasks, household chores and errands, cleaning is one of the most hated. 