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Unhappy

//ʌnˈhæpi// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not happy; sad.

    "I am unhappy."

  2. 2
    Not satisfied; unsatisfied.

    "An unhappy customer is unlikely to return to your shop."

  3. 3
    Not lucky; unlucky. dated

    "The doomed lovers must have been born under an unhappy star."

  4. 4
    Not suitable; unsuitable. dated

    "The people, if they are not strangely bent Against our welfare, never will consent To this unhappy match, foreboding ill: What's it to us, if th' adverse nation will?"

Adjective
  1. 1
    generalized feeling of distress wordnet
  2. 2
    marked by or producing unhappiness wordnet
  3. 3
    experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent wordnet
  4. 4
    causing discomfort wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A person who is not happy.

    "Leduc, as is true of many other unhappies, is largely a confessional writer: her subject is herself, and her gift is a driving, vivacious power that turns her incurable, inveterate unhappiness into a series of dramas […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To make or become unhappy; to sadden.

    "A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments, By you unhappied and disfigured clean"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English unhappy; equivalent to un- + happy.

Etymology 2

From Middle English unhappy; equivalent to un- + happy.

Etymology 3

From Middle English unhappy; equivalent to un- + happy.

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