Thesaurus: unhappy
Not happy or fortunate; unfortunate; unlucky; as, affairs have taken an unhappy turn.
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Definitions
- a. Not happy or fortunate; unfortunate; unlucky; as, affairs have taken an unhappy turn.
- a. In a degree miserable or wretched; not happy; sad; sorrowful; as, children render their parents unhappy by misconduct.
- a. Marked by infelicity; evil; calamitous; as, an unhappy day.
- a. Mischievous; wanton; wicked.
- adj. experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent
- adj. generalized feeling of distress
- adj. causing discomfort
- adj. marked by or producing unhappiness
- 1. Not happy or fortunate; unfortunate; unlucky; as, affairs have taken an unhappy turn. 2. In a degree miserable or wretched; not happy; sad; sorrowful; as, children render their parents unhappy by misconduct. 3. Marked by infelicity; evil; calamitous; as, an unhappy day. "The unhappy morn." Milton. 4. Mischievous; wanton; wicked. [Obs.] Shak. -- Un*hap"pi*ly, adv. -- Un*hap"pi*ness, n.
- j:100 a. experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent s. causing discomfort