Unhappening
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Unhappening is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of unhappen.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of unhappen.
More Meanings
- (India) Uneventful.
- (rare) A happening that fails to occur; a nonevent.
Example Sentences
The next few months were dark and unhappening for Gautam.
British aid to Bulgarian partisans was defined, by silence, as a non-event, an unhappening. No official statement acknowledging this aid has ever been made.
The stage was set for the Greening of America, but by lunchtime of the first day, the meeting had dissolved into an unhappening, as shouting matches broke out among deep ecologists, feminists, animal liberationists, anarchists.
Next day, it was time for us to leave and believe me, the return journey was the most unhappening journey I had experienced in my entire life. […] The entire 45 minutes of the journey were devoted in looking towards my QUEEN, only to get a reaction.
Word Forms
- unhappenings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nonhappening, nonevent, nonattempt, non-occurring, nonoccurence, nonencounter.
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