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adj
Not happy; sad.
I am unhappy.
A moment of time may make us unhappy forever.
Not satisfied; unsatisfied.
An unhappy customer is unlikely to return to your shop.
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.
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
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
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.