infelicity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=fe=lic=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

infelicity, n. [L. infelicitas: cf. F. infélicité. See In- not, and Felicity.].

•  The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; lack of suitableness or appropriateness.  I. Watts.  [1913 Webster]

  "Whatever is the ignorance and infelicity of the present state, we were made wise and happy."  [1913 Webster]
•  That (as an act, word, expression, etc.) which is infelicitous; as, infelicities of speech.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

infelicity, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a inaptness of expression etc. b an instance of this.
2 a unhappiness. b a misfortune.

Etymology

ME f. L infelicitas (as IN-(1), FELICITY)

THESAURUS

infelicity

Gothicism, abnormality, aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, anomaly, antiphrasis, bad taste, bale, barbarism, barbarousness, bitterness, bleeding heart, bombasticness, broken heart, cacology, cacophony, cheerlessness, clumsiness, coarseness, corruption, crudeness, crushing, cumbrousness, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, discontent, displeasure, dysphemism, extremity, futility, gracelessness, grief, grimness, grossness, harshness, heartache, heaviness, heavy heart, humorlessness, ill-balanced sentences, impoliticalness, impoliticness, impropriety, impurity, inadmissibility, inadvisability, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, inauspiciousness, inconcinnity, incongruity, inconvenience, inconveniency, incorrectness, indecorousness, inelegance, inelegancy, ineptitude, inexpedience, inexpediency, infestivity, inopportuneness, inopportunity, intempestivity, interruption, intrusion, irrelevance, irrelevancy, joylessness, lack of finish, lack of polish, lateness, leadenness, maladjustment, malapropism, melancholia, melancholy, mesalliance, mirthlessness, misalliance, misconstruction, misery, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, missaying, misusage, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, prematurity, prostration, roughness, rudeness, sadness, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, slipshod construction, solecism, stiltedness, suicidal despair, tastelessness, turgidity, uncheerfulness, uncongeniality, uncouthness, undesirability, uneuphoniousness, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, ungracefulness, ungrammaticism, unhappiness, unjoyfulness, unmeetness, unmirthfulness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unpropitiousness, unrefinement, unripeness, unseasonableness, unseemliness, unsuitability, untimeliness, unwieldiness, unwiseness, uselessness, vulgarism, vulgarity, woe, worthlessness, wretchedness, wrongness

ROGET THESAURUS

infelicity

Unskillfulness

N unskillfulness, want of skill, incompetence, incompentency, inability, infelicity, indexterity, inexperience, disqualification, unproficiency, quackery, folly, stupidity indiscretion, thoughtlessness, sabotage, mismanagement, misconduct, impolicy, maladministration, misrule, misgovernment, misapplication, misdirection, misfeasance, petticoat government, absence of rule, rule of thumb, bungling, failure, screw loose: too many cooks, blunder, etourderie gaucherie, act of folly, balourdise, botch, botchery, bad job, sad work, sprat sent out to catch a whale, much ado about nothing, wild- goose chase, bungler, fool, unskillful, inexpert, bungling, awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit, left-handed, heavy-handed, slovenly, slatternly, gawky, adrift, at fault, inapt, unapt, inhabile, untractable, unteachable, giddy, inconsiderate, stupid inactive, incompetent, unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified, unfit, quackish, raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice, unaccustomed, unused, untrained &c, uninitiated, unconversant, shiftless, unstatesmanlike, unadvised, ill-advised, misadvised, ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted, unguided, misguided, misconducted, foolish, wild, infelicitous, penny wise and pound foolish, one's fingers being all thumbs, the right hand forgets its cunning, il se noyerait dans une goutte d'eau, incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim, out of the frying pan into the fire, non omnia possumus omnes.

Pain

N mental suffering, pain, dolor, suffering, sufferance, ache, smart, passion, displeasure, dissatisfaction, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, malaise, inquietude, uneasiness, vexation of spirit, taking, discontent, dejection, weariness, anhedonia, annoyance, irritation, worry, infliction, visitation, plague, bore, bother, botheration, stew, vexation, mortification, chagrin, esclandre, mauvais quart d'heur, care, anxiety, solicitude, trouble, trial, ordeal, fiery ordeal, shock, blow, cark, dole, fret, burden, load, concern, grief, sorrow, distress, affliction, woe, bitterness, heartache, carking cares, heavy heart, aching heart, bleeding heart, broken heart, heavy affliction, gnawing grief, unhappiness, infelicity, misery, tribulation, wretchedness, desolation, despair, extremity, prostration, depth of misery, nightmare, ephialtes, incubus, pang, anguish, agony, torture, torment, purgatory, hell upon earth, iron age, reign of terror, slough of despond, peck of troubles, ills that flesh is heir to, miseries of human life, unkindest cut of all, sufferer, victim, prey, martyr, object of compassion, wretch, shorn lamb, in pain, in a state of pain, full of pain, suffering, pained, afflicted, worried, displeased, aching, griped, sore, on the rack, in limbo, between hawk and buzzard, uncomfortable, uneasy, ill at ease, in a taking, in a way, disturbed, discontented, out of humor, weary, heavy laden, stricken, crushed, a prey to, victimized, ill-used, unfortunate, to be pitied, doomed, devoted, accursed, undone, lost, stranded, fey, unhappy, infelicitous, poor, wretched, miserable, woe-begone, cheerless, careworn, concerned, sorry, sorrowing, sorrowful, cut up, chagrined, horrified, horror-stricken, in grief, plunged in grief, a prey to grief, in tears, steeped to the lips in misery, heart-stricken, heart-broken, heart-scalded, broken-hearted, in despair, the iron entered into our soul, haeret lateri lethalis arundo, one's heart bleeding, down, thou climbing sorrow, mirth cannot move a soul in agony, nessun maggior dolere che ricordarsi del tempo fel, sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier th, the Niobe of Nations.