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Meaning of 'unhappy' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Unhappy [ a.]
- Not happy or fortunate; unfortunate; unlucky; as, affairs have taken an unhappy turn.
- In a degree miserable or wretched; not happy; sad; sorrowful; as, children render their parents unhappy by misconduct.
- Marked by infelicity; evil; calamitous; as, an unhappy day.
- Mischievous; wanton; wicked.

Meaning of 'unhappy' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . unhappy [ a]
Meaning (1):
- experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent
Example in sentence:
  • after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence;
  • had an unhappy time at school;
  • he looks so sad;
  • the unhappy (or sad) news;
  • unhappy over her departure;
  • unhappy with her raise
2 . unhappy [ s]
Meaning (2):
- marked by or producing unhappiness
Example in sentence:
  • infelicitous circumstances;
  • unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes
Meaning (3):
- causing discomfort
Example in sentence:
  • the unhappy truth

Nearby Words:

unhair unhallow unhallowed unhand unhandsome unhandy unhang unhap unhappied unharbor

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