reciprocated

[ ri-sip-ruh-key-tid ]

adjective

1. given, done, or felt in return:

   When I greeted the lady who walked by my house every morning, she looked right through me as if I were invisible, with no reciprocated response.

2. given and received, or equally engaged in, by both parties; mutual:

   In its most developed form, love occurs within a reciprocated relationship with another person.

   When he created his export business, his mission was to build a reciprocated trust within an honest and sustaining working relationship with artisans.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of reciprocate ( def ).

Other Words From

• un·re·cip·ro·cat·ed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of reciprocated¹

reciprocate ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

And rap stars reciprocated his affection, looking on Jones as an inspirational elder statesman of black American music.

From BBC

“I’m not telling you,” Shildt responded with a chuckle, one reciprocated by the mass of media members before him at his pre-NLDS news conference.

From Los Angeles Times

The vice president’s wholehearted celebration of the city she was born in wasn’t necessarily reciprocated the first time she ran for president.

From Los Angeles Times

Secretly smitten with his distant cousin Roxanne, he finds himself in a situation of tantalizing torture when called upon to help Christian, a new recruit in his charge, find the words to express his reciprocated passion for this same woman, whose standards of poetic excellence are as demanding as her cousin’s.

From Los Angeles Times

He immediately started singing, the aquarium said, which was reciprocated by the broader penguin colony.

From BBC

Related Words

• bilateral
• collective
• reciprocal