Definition of "unappreciated" []

• Not recognized, as to quality or worth: an unappreciated gesture of good will. (adjective)
• Not having risen in price or value: an unappreciated investment. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham sympathetically told her friend Allen Dulles, the CIA Director fired by President Kennedy after the disaster, that she knew he must be feeling terribly "unappreciated"."
• "The result was a series of plays that set a new mark for English production, that put stimulus behind the so-called "unappreciated" play, and gave the English-speaking drama something to talk about -- and to remember."
• "She was never so happy as when she was miserable, -- as an Irishman would have had it, -- and hugged the conviction that she was "unappreciated" by her family, and a victim of fate."