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unhappy

.ʌn'hæpi10 senses · 1187 ms
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adj/ʌnˈhæpi/
  1. 1

    Not happy; sad.

    • I am unhappy.
  2. 2

    Not satisfied; unsatisfied.

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

    Not lucky; unlucky.dated

    • The doomed lovers must have been born under an unhappy star.
  4. 4

    Not suitable; unsuitable.dated

    • 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/ʌnˈhæpi/
  1. 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/ʌnˈhæpi/
  1. 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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