unhappy

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʌnˈhæpi/

Adjective

unhappy (comparative unhappier, superlative unhappiest)

1. Not happy; sad.
   • , John Gay, The Beggar's Opera

     A moment of time may make us unhappy forever.

2. Not satisfied; unsatisfied.

   An unhappy customer is unlikely to return to your shop.

3. (mostly, dated) Not lucky; unlucky.

   The doomed lovers must have been born under an unhappy star.

4. (mostly, dated) 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?

Synonyms

• (not happy) seeSynonyms en

Antonyms

• happy
• glad
• delighted
• exuberant
• joyous
• joyful

Translations

• French: malheureux, triste
• German: unglücklich
• Italian: triste, rattristato, mogio, abbacchiato, afflitto, avvilito, malinconico, mesto, infelice, egro
• Portuguese: infeliz, triste
• Russian: несча́стный
• Spanish: infeliz

Translations

• French: mécontent
• Italian: scontento, amareggiato, sconfortato, depresso, demoralizzato
• Russian: недово́льный

Translations

• Italian: sfortunato, sfigato, iellato
• Russian: неуда́чный

Translations

• Italian: inadatto, infelice
• Russian: неподходя́щий

Noun

unhappy (plural unhappies)

1. An individual who is not happy.
   • 1972, The New Yorker (volume 48, part 1, page 109)

     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 […]

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