unhappy

Plural: unhappies

Adjective

• Not pleased or content; feeling sorrow or displeasure.
• experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent
  • "unhappy over her departure"
  • "unhappy with her raise"
  • "after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence"
  • "had an unhappy time at school"
  • "the unhappy (or sad) news"
• generalized feeling of distress

Adjective Satellite

• causing discomfort
  • "the unhappy truth"
• marked by or producing unhappiness; ; - American Guide Series
  • "unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes"

Adj

• Not happy; sad.
• Not satisfied; unsatisfied.
• Not lucky; unlucky.
• Not suitable; unsuitable.

Noun

• A person who is not happy.

Verb

• To make or become unhappy; to sadden.

Examples

• An unhappy customer is unlikely to return to your shop.
• He was UNHAPPY with his Scrabble score after his opponent played a triple-word score.
• I am unhappy.
• The doomed lovers must have been born under an unhappy star.

Synonyms

distressed, dysphoric, infelicitous, aggrieve, atrabiliary, atrabilious, attrist, bad, begloom, begrieve, besorrow, bleed, blitheless, blue, bring down, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, condole, contristate, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dash, deject, dejected, depress, depressed, desolate, despondent, discommensurate, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, dispirit, dissatisfied, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, down on one's luck, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, engrieve, erme, forlorn, forset, fortuneless, get down, gloom, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieve, grieven, grieving, hapless, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-starred, improper, inappropriate, inapt, inauspicious, incommensurate, inconsolable, inept, infortunate, inopportune, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lament, lamentable, lamentful, low, low-spirited, luckless, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, misadventurous, mischanceful, miserable, misfortuned, moan, moody, mopey, morose, mourn, mournful, oppress, out of line, out of order, out of place, passionate, peak, plaintive, querulous, regret, rue, sad, sad panda, sad sack, sadcase, sadden, sadden up, saddened, saturnine, shattered, sigh, snakebit, solemn, sombre, sorrow, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, thwart, triste, tristful, tristitiate, unapt, unchancy, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, uncontented, unfavourable, unfit, unfortunate, ungladden, unhappy, unlively, unlucky, unpropitious, unseemly, unsuitable, upset, wanchancy, wayment, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched, yearn

Antonyms

euphoric, happy, delighted, exuberant, glad, joyful, joyous

Anagrams of unhappy