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unhappy English

Meaning unhappy meaning

What does unhappy mean?

Definitions in simple English

unhappy Adjective

— If someone is unhappy, they are sad or depressed. There are many unhappy people in the hospital. — If someone is unhappy, they are not happy. That man is unhappy, because he lost the game.

unhappy

— adjective 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 he looks so sad — adjective (= distressed) generalized feeling of distress — adjective causing discomfort the unhappy truth — adjective (= infelicitous) marked by or producing unhappiness infelicitous circumstances unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes — American Guide Series

Synonyms unhappy synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as unhappy?

unhappy English » English

sad sorrowful miserable unfortunate depressed unlucky gloomy infelicitous wretched sorry melancholy distressed displeased discontented poor morose doleful dissatisfied lonely inauspicious hapless dysphoric downhearted downcast dispirited disappointed dejected blue upset unenviable uneasy tough pitiful pitiable luckless lonesome joyless hopeless forlorn down dismal cheerless be unsatisfied be homesick bad anxious yearning woeful woebegone weak

Topics unhappy topics

What do people use unhappy to talk about?

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Sad

What words describe someone who feels sad?

sad crestfallen dejected disappointed discouraged doleful down downcast downhearted fed up forlorn gloomy glum grouchy grumpy with a heavy heart homesick low melancholy morose mournful pensive sober (adj) solemn sorry sorrowful sullen unhappy wistful woeful
What words describe a time when a person feels sad?

sad unhappy miserable
What words describe a person who usually feels sad?

discouraged discouragement depressed depression feel down grouch unhappy unhappiness
What words refer to causing someone to feel sad?

sadden aggrieve disappoint depress discourage distress grieve hurt sober (v) sting torment make someone sad make someone unhappy get someone down break someone's heart drive someone to despair

Language and thought Emotion Feel good Like, love

Contentment

What words refer to not being satisfied?

be displeased with be unhappy with not happy dissatisfied discontented disgruntled

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Sad

Dislike

Examples unhappy examples

How do I use unhappy in a sentence?

Simple sentences

It is surprising how many unhappy marriages there are.

Tom's third marriage was unhappy and he was considering yet another divorce.

Did you know Tom was unhappy?

Tom asked me why I was unhappy.

We knew Tom was unhappy.

Sami was really unhappy about it.

I'd be unhappy, but I wouldn't kill myself.

For all his wealth, he is unhappy.

He went insane from the unhappy accident.

The unhappy woman, drowned in tears, told her story.

The unhappy event made him put an end to himself.

It's surprising how many unhappy marriages there are.

For all his wealth and fame, he is unhappy.

I'm really unhappy about this.

I inferred from our conversation that he was unhappy with his job.

He lived an unhappy life.

What is she so unhappy about?

She looks unhappy.

All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Though I have neither money nor friends, I am not so unhappy as you think.

I would rather remain single than live an unhappy life with him.

She is living an unhappy life.

She lived an unhappy life.

The poor are not always unhappy.

Movie subtitles

So you are unhappy.

And if they're from an unhappy home, they're terribly easy to hurt.

Just remember, when people are mean, chances are it's because they're unhappy, so they try to make other people just as unhappy as they are.

In writings that have survived to this day, these unhappy women wrote down with touching simplicity how the Devil penetrated the convent.

And the little woman, whom we call hysterical, alone and unhappy, isn't she still a riddle for us?

Nowadays we detain the unhappy in a mental institution or if she is wealthy - in a modern clinic.

Your obedient servant, the unhappy father Fjodor Karamasoff P.S. I am certain that your beauty will be victorious.

An eagle can putter around a rugged mountaintop but not in a cage, because he'd be restless and unhappy.

We're too unhappy apart.

It must be an unhappy home!

I'm so unhappy.

But you're horribly, miserably unhappy.

It's you who are making me unhappy, Paul.

I'm not unhappy about the protests.

But today, world peace is enforced by our unit, the Guardians, for the United Nations, but I believe you may be unhappy with the status quo.

An eagle can putter around rugged mountaintops but not in a cage, because he'd be restless and unhappy.

He'd probably never been unhappy before.

That means you are happy or unhappy.

I know that you're unhappy.

You're unhappy!

Unhappy?

Then you'd be unhappy.

I have been very unhappy since she died.

Please don't let me go. They made my poor mama very unhappy.

Tell him I don't like to see a friend of mine so unhappy, so one more catch, I'll cut him loose.

Your unhappy daughter, Edna.

Honest, you're making me very unhappy.

And besides, what have you got to be unhappy about?

Your son is unhappy.

There are children so unhappy they kill themselves.

So, you're unhappy too?

As unhappy as me?

You'll spend all your old age with a woman who likes to make others unhappy.

News and current affairs

And Chinese policymakers made it abundantly clear how unhappy they would be with a negative decision.

Many Romanian Army officers are unhappy with the notion of soldiers being tried for crimes committed while defending the dying communist regime.

Of course, Arabs are still unhappy with the United States' continued bias towards Israel.

Many Yushchenko loyalists are unhappy that, in exchange for the government agreeing to fairer election rules, Yushchenko agreed to transfer some presidential powers to the parliament.

As European countries take these measures, their economies are likely to weaken - with unhappy consequences for the global recovery.

If they become unhappy, they can always console themselves with a pirated DVD.

The starting point for the EU's unhappy bid to create a shared constitution had been fears that its decision-making mechanisms were being overloaded by the accession of so many new members, first in May 2004 and again at the beginning of this year.

Some Council members, unhappy with Trichet's dovish stance at the December press conference, made their displeasure known via the press soon after.

What other way forward is there for that unhappy former country?

The FSF was not a scary creature, and the individual regulators, national and international, were largely left to their own devices, with all of the unhappy consequences with which we have become acquainted.

For much too long, they saw it as an unhappy accident to be corrected at the first opportunity.

Many religions instruct us that attachment to material possessions makes us unhappy.

Happy transitions, to paraphrase Tolstoy, are all alike; but every unhappy transition is unhappy in its own way.

This seems to be a more efficient - and politically more stable - form of democracy than the unhappy cohabitation that produces such ugly confrontations in Taiwan, South Korea, and the Philippines.

This seems to be a more efficient - and politically more stable - form of democracy than the unhappy cohabitation that produces such ugly confrontations of the type seen across the region.

No longer an independent global power, yet unhappy with the London-Washington axis that Blair forged, Brown's government continues to waffle in its commitment to a united Europe.

If the result is substantially positive, we regard the person's life as happy; if negative, as unhappy.

If they say they are satisfied, or very satisfied, they are happy, rather than unhappy.

The Chinese are not going to change their exchange rate regime, which has strategic as well as economic motivations, just because the Europeans are unhappy with the currency peg.

This view is nonsense, and besides, if the public is so unhappy with its leaders' performance, why does it keep electing and re-electing them?

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