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adjective

Unhappy adj.

Not happy or fortunate; unfortunate; unlucky; as, affairs have taken an unhappy turn.

In a degree miserable or wretched; not happy; sad; sorrowful; as, children render their parents unhappy by misconduct.

Marked by infelicity; evil; calamitous; as, an unhappy day. "The unhappy morn."

Mischievous; wanton; wicked. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Unhappy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Unhappy" Quotes from Famous Books

... chance of misapprehension, without shadow of doubt; understood to her heart's heart. And with the knowledge a new feeling was born within her. No woman, not her dearest friend; not even Page had ever seemed so close to her as did her husband now. How could she be unhappy henceforward? The future was ...

— The Pit • Frank Norris

... brushed her eyes with her handkerchief. "You musn't think, my dear, that I'm not a believer in the home because mine has been unhappy—because my husband didn't or couldn't understand. The true home is the inspirer and nourisher of all that is best in life—in our American life; but men must learn the new lesson. There are many homes—yours, I'm sure—where ...

— Unleavened Bread • Robert Grant

... you how it was over there all these years. I could not speak of it.... I thought we should be enough, as you say. We had our love and our music.... But we weren't enough, almost from the start. She was unhappy. She really wanted those things we had given up, which she might have had if it had been otherwise—I mean if she had been my wife. I was too much of a fool to see that at once. I didn't want divorce and marriage—there were difficulties in the way, too. We had thrown over the world, defied ...

— Together • Robert Herrick (1868-1938)

... a merchant vessel; a clever, good-hearted boy, but restless and nervous, irresolute and unhappy, like his father. "He has the misfortune to resemble me in everything," said Berlioz; "and we love each other like a couple of twins."[33] "Ah, my poor Louis," he wrote to him, "what should I do without you?" A few months afterwards ...

— Musicians of To-Day • Romain Rolland

... out into the world, received them with the utmost regularity. They knew that every incident in their lives interested their mother; and they in their turn were eager to report to her everything that came to them, happy or unhappy, serious or amusing. And this relation of the family to their mother only grew and strengthened with years. As the daughters married, their husbands became so many new and devoted sons to this gentle, sympathetic, and yet firm-natured woman. Nor were the daughters-in-law less ...

— A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume I • Mrs. Humphry Ward

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