adjective (unhappier, unhappiest)
HELPNOTE more unhappy and most unhappy are also common
1 not happy; sad:
to look / seem / sound unhappy * an unhappy childhood / marriage
2 ~ (about / at / with sth) not pleased or satisfied with sth:
They were unhappy with their accommodation. * He was unhappy at being left out of the team. * Many people are deeply unhappy about the way the government has handled this matter.
3 (formal) unfortunate or not suitable:
an unhappy coincidence * It was an unhappy choice of words.
unhappiness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for unhappy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does unhappy appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — unhappy appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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