unhappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈhæpi/
rhymes: -æpi
Forms: form: unhappier
form: more unhappy
form: unhappiest
form: most unhappy
Etymology: From Middle English unhappy; equivalent to un- + happy.
Senses: examples: text: I am unhappy.
text: A moment of time may make us unhappy forever.
ref: 1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera:
synonyms: word: sad
word: lamentable
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: blitheless
word: dispirited
word: blue
word: bummed out
word: chapfallen
word: cheerless
word: chopfallen
word: crestfallen
word: cut up
word: damp
word: dejected
word: depressed
word: despondent
word: disgruntled
word: disconsolate
word: disheartened
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: down
word: down in the dumps
word: down in the mouth
word: downcast
word: downhearted
word: downsome
word: dull
word: elegiac
word: elegious
word: forlorn
word: gloomy
word: glum
word: grief-stricken
word: grieving
word: heavy-hearted
word: heartsore
word: heartsick
word: inconsolable
word: infelicitous
word: jawfallen
word: joyless
word: lachrymose
word: lamentful
word: low
word: low-spirited
word: lugubrious
word: lumpish
word: melancholic
word: melancholy
word: miserable
word: moody
word: mopey
word: morose
word: mournful
word: passionate
word: plaintive
word: querulous
word: sad
word: saddened
word: saturnine
word: shattered
word: solemn
word: sombre
word: sorrowful
word: sorrow-ridden
word: sorrowsome
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: threnetic
word: threnetical
word: triste
word: tristful
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unconsolable
word: unhappy
word: unlively
word: wistful
word: woe
word: woebegone
word: woeful
word: wretched
antonyms: delighted
exuberant
glad
happy
joyous
joyful
glosses: Not happy; sad.
examples: text: An unhappy customer is unlikely to return to your shop.
synonyms: dissatisfied
uncontented
glosses: Not satisfied; unsatisfied.
examples: text: The doomed lovers must have been born under an unhappy star.
text: The pointed shaft of the cart had entered the breast of the unhappy Prince like a sword, and from the wound his life's blood was spouting in a stream, and falling with a hiss into the road.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 56:
synonyms: word: hapless
word: unpropitious
word: down on one's luck
word: fortuneless
word: ill-boding
word: ill-fated
word: ill-starred
word: inauspicious
word: infelicitous
word: infortunate
word: hapless
word: luckless
word: misadventurous
word: mischanceful
word: misfortuned
word: peak
word: snakebit
word: thwart
word: unchancy
word: unfavourable
word: unfortunate
word: unhappy
word: unpropitious
word: unlucky
word: wanchancy
glosses: Not lucky; unlucky.
examples: text: 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?
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: unfit
word: inappropriate
word: bad
word: discommensurate
word: improper
word: inappropriate
word: inapt
word: incommensurate
word: inept
word: inopportune
word: out of line
word: out of order
word: out of place
word: unapt
word: unfit
word: unhappy
word: unseemly
word: unsuitable
glosses: Not suitable; unsuitable.
Derived terms: unhappy number
unhappy triad