Unhappy

/ʌnˈhæpi/ · adjective

Meaning

Not happy; sad..

Definitions by Sense

1. Not happy; sad.
2. Not satisfied; unsatisfied.
3. (chiefly dated) Not lucky; unlucky.
4. (chiefly dated) Not suitable; unsuitable.
5. A person who is not happy.
6. To make or become unhappy; to sadden.

Example Sentences

I am unhappy.

A moment of time may make us unhappy forever.

An unhappy customer is unlikely to return to your shop.

The doomed lovers must have been born under an unhappy star.

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.

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?

Leduc, as is true of many other unhappies, is largely a confessional writer: her subject is herself, and her gift is a driving, vivacious power that turns her incurable, inveterate unhappiness into a series of dramas […]

A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments, By you unhappied and disfigured clean

Synonyms for unhappy

Antonyms for unhappy

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Word Forms

• unhappier
• more unhappy
• unhappiest
• most unhappy
• unhappies
• unhappying
• unhappied

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