unhappy

[Un*hap·py]

Experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent

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Not happy or fortunate; unfortunate; unlucky; as, affairs have taken an unhappy turn.

Adjective
generalized feeling of distress

Adjective S.
marked by or producing unhappiness; "infelicitous circumstances"; "unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes"- American Guide Series

Adjective
experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent; "unhappy over her departure"; "unhappy with her raise"; "after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence"; "had an unhappy time at school"; "the unhappy (or sad) news"; "he looks

Adjective S.
causing discomfort; "the unhappy truth"


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.


Unhappy

Un*hap"py , a. 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.

Not happy or fortunate; unfortunate; unlucky; as, affairs have taken an unhappy turn.

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Usage Examples

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

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Other Usage Examples

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.

I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.

I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.

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