unhappy

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Not happy

   Not happy; sad.

   • I am unhappy.
   • A moment of time may make us unhappy forever.
2. 2

   Not satisfied

   Not satisfied; unsatisfied.

   • An unhappy customer is unlikely to return to your shop.
3. 3

   Not lucky

   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.
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   1. 4

      Not suitable

      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?
   2. 5

      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 […]
   3. 6

      To make or become unhappy

      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.
      • They unhappied their estates by sinning against God, and of glorious Angels became unclean devils: there is not part of the work of Gods hands so eternally cast away, reserved in chains of darknesse for the judgement of the last day.

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