unhappy

UK /ʌnˈhæpi/ US /ʌnˈhæpi/
adj 4noun 1verb 1

Definitions

adj

1

Not happy; sad.

I am unhappy.

A moment of time may make us unhappy forever.

2

Not satisfied; unsatisfied.

An unhappy customer is unlikely to return to your shop.

3

Not lucky; unlucky.

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.

4

Not suitable; unsuitable.

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?

noun

1

A person who is not happy.

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 […]

verb

1

To make or become unhappy; to sadden.

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

In the greate desire I have unto your grace's service, nothing has more unhappied me than the wante of opportunitie in which I might expresse the character of my harte that onlie takes of your impressions.

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