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Meaning of 'unhappy'
Meaning of 'unhappy' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Unhappy 
[ 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.
- Marked by infelicity; evil; calamitous; as, an unhappy day.
- Mischievous; wanton; wicked.
Meaning of 'unhappy' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. unhappy [ a]
[ a]Meaning (1):
- experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent
- 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]
[ s]Meaning (2):
- marked by or producing unhappiness
- marked by or producing unhappiness
Example in sentence:
- infelicitous circumstances;
- unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes
Meaning (3):
- causing discomfort
- causing discomfort
Example in sentence:
- the unhappy truth
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