unsad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unsadder
form: more unsad
form: unsaddest
form: most unsad
Etymology: From un- + sad.
Senses: examples: text: What’s the matter with American writing these days? .... The few unsad young men of this lost generation will have to look for another way of finding themselves than the one indicated here.
ref: 1926, John Dos Passos, review of The Sun Also Rises, in New Masses:
text: The freedom that you wanted bad / Is yours for good, I hope you're glad / Sad into unsad
ref: 1990, The Beautiful South, “A Little Time”, in Choke:
text: This was not little unsad and dedarkened my lack of night. Thanks for the great post.
ref: 1999 April 20, Bob Mc., “The Romance of English (was re: 128 rules-no monetary gain))^([sic])”, in soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm (Usenet):
text: I have a love-hate relationship with the wind. / Sometimes, i find myself all dolled up to go out, feeling pretty & fine & fancy & queenly, & as i wait for my cab, perched on my porchrailing off of which the paint is peeling, the wind off the sea forces its way past our protective shielding pines, & tears my false, hairspray-fortified loveliness from me like a sheet off a line. It sticks its dry, sharp fingers into the corners of my eyes, making me cry unsad tears, & it musses my carefully-arranged flirty skirts like a too-eager highschool boyfriend.
ref: 1999 August 22, Ladybee, “Hideousness!!! (kinda long rant)”, in alt.gothic.fashion (Usenet):
text: > You are so sad and pathitic^([sic]) it / >almost leaves one speechless. / well, you seem relatively unsad, and are mouthing-off... / obviously, you are not the "one" / is this possibly yer manic phase? hate sadness? / take medication...it may do the job, but it also may taste bad
ref: 1999 November 20, JayDee, “Your^([sic]) not livin' in the REAL world”, in rec.music.artists.stevie-nicks (Usenet):
text: the first time i posted "kroebo" my eyes hurt when i read it. it was sad. now it is unsad.
ref: 2000 October 23, caeliestis, “[words] "convolution" ::caeliestis::”, in alt.teens.poetry.and.stuff (Usenet):
text: The commentary track on "The Fall of Night" makes it clear the studio "suggested" a hotshot pilot character, and JMS hated the idea, but did it anyway. He was entirely unsad when he was able to kill him off at the end of the season.
ref: 2003 July 15, Aaron Brezenski, “Young and sexy soldier girl on Enterprise”, in rec.arts.sf.tv (Usenet):
text: I stopped the Paxil once for 8 or 9 days and the sadness returned already. So I restarted and was back to unsad in about 4 days.
ref: 2004 February 19, Roscoe Coaltrain, “Paxil made me all better...but what happens when I quit taking it?”, in alt.support.depression.medication (Usenet):
text: >> Yabbut, RMick's lamp is a magic lamp. It cures him of SAD. / > / > yes and it jolly well works too!!! / It made me unsad just by turning up.
ref: 2007 January 11, Mick Fanner, “Two days.”, in alt.funnytown (Usenet):
text: Purveyors of lost Eden myths write about happiness among pre-industrial people because they assume their readers will find such happiness remarkable. Generally, however, social scientists follow Tolstoy (in his famous declaration at the start of Anna Karenina) in finding happiness uninteresting. With apologies to Bourdieu, my suggestion is that in non-idyllic social science ‘what goes unsad goes without saying’.
ref: 2008, Neil Thin, “‘Realising the Substance of Their Happiness’: How Anthropology Forgot About Homo Gauisus”, in Alberto Corsín Jiménez, editor, Culture and Well-Being: Anthropological Approaches to Freedom and Political Ethics, London; Ann Arbor, Mich.: Pluto Press, →ISBN, part III (Proportionalities), page 148:
text: I say that he is my best friend because whenever I have sad eyes because mom and dad are ﬁghting, he makes them unsad.
ref: 2011 spring, Scott Warfe, “The “N” Word”, in The Salal Review, volume 11, Longview, Wash.: Lower Columbia College, page 53:
coordinate_terms: word: equanimous
english: even mood
translation: even mood
word: OK
word: ;
english: good mood
translation: good mood
word: happy
word: glad
english: absence of regret
translation: absence of regret
word: ;
word: unsorry
word: unrepentant
word: impenitent
word: unregretful
glosses: Not sad.
Related terms: unsadden
unsadly
unsadness