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Webster 1913 Edition
Unhappy
Un-hap′py
,Adj.
1.
Not happy or fortunate; unfortunate; unlucky;
as, affairs have taken an
. unhappy
turn2.
In a degree miserable or wretched; not happy; sad; sorrowful;
as, children render their parents
. unhappy
by misconduct3.
Marked by infelicity; evil; calamitous;
“The unhappy morn.” as, an
. unhappy
dayMilton.
4.
Mischievous; wanton; wicked.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Un-hap′pi-ly
(#)
, adv.
Un-hap′pi-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Unhappy
UNHAP'PY
, a.1.
Unfortunate; unlucky. He has been unhappy in his choice of a partner. Affairs have taken an unhappy turn.2.
Not happy; in a degree miserable or wretched. She is unhappy in her marriage. Children sometimes render their parents unhappy.3.
Evil; calamitous; marked by infelicity; as an unhappy day.This unhappy morn.
4.
Mischievous; irregular.Definition 2024
unhappy
unhappy
English
Adjective
unhappy (comparative unhappier, superlative unhappiest)
- Not happy; sad.
- John Gay, The Beggar's Opera
- A moment of time may make us unhappy forever.
- John Gay, The Beggar's Opera
- Not satisfied; unsatisfied.
- An unhappy customer is unlikely to return to your shop.
- Not lucky; unlucky.
- The doomed lovers must have been born under an unhappy star.
- Not suitable; unsuitable.
- John Foxe
- 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?
- The people, if they are not strangely bent
- John Foxe
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:unhappy
Antonyms
Translations
not happy; sad
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not satisfied; unsatisfied
not lucky; unlucky
not suitable; unsuitable
Noun
unhappy (plural unhappies)
- An individual who is not happy.
- 1972, The New Yorker (volume 48, part 1, page 109)
- 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 […]
- 1972, The New Yorker (volume 48, part 1, page 109)