unhappy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: un=hap=py

CIDE DICTIONARY

unhappy, a. 

•  Not happy or fortunate; unfortunate; unlucky; as, affairs have taken an unhappy turn.  [1913 Webster]
•  In a degree miserable or wretched; not happy; sad; sorrowful; as, children render their parents unhappy by misconduct.  [1913 Webster]
•  Marked by infelicity; evil; calamitous; as, an unhappy day.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
•  Mischievous; wanton; wicked.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

unhappy, adj. (unhappier, unhappiest)
1 not happy, miserable.
2 unsuccessful, unfortunate.
3 causing misfortune.
4 disastrous.
5 inauspicious.

Derivative

unhappily adv. unhappiness n.

THESAURUS

unhappy

Sad, against, anguished, anxious, awkward, bad, badly off, beefing, bellyaching, bitching, black, bleak, blue, bored, bumbling, cheerless, clumsy, complaining, complaintful, con, crabbing, crabby, cranky, crestfallen, croaking, cursed, dejected, depressant, depressed, despondent, dire, disagreeable, disappointed, disapprobatory, disapproving, disastrous, disconsolate, discontented, disenchanted, disgruntled, disgusted, disillusioned, dismal, dispirited, dispiriting, displeased, displeasing, dissatisfied, dissenting, distressed, donsie, doomful, down, downcast, downhearted, dreary, envious, evil-starred, fatal, faultfinding, forlorn, fortuneless, funest, futile, gauche, gloomy, glum, graceless, grim, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumbling, halting, hapless, heavy-handed, heavyhearted, humorless, ill off, ill-advised, ill-chosen, ill-considered, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-seasoned, ill-starred, ill-suited, ill-timed, impolitic, improper, in adverse circumstances, in bad humor, inadvisable, inappropriate, inapt, inauspicious, incongruous, inconvenient, indignant, inept, inexpedient, infelicitous, infestive, inopportune, intempestive, intrusive, irrelevant, joyless, lachrymose, late, long-faced, low, low-spirited, luckless, mal a propos, maladroit, malapropos, malcontent, malcontented, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, mistimed, murmuring, muttering, nauseated, nauseous, off base, ominous, opposed, opposing, oppressive, out of humor, out of line, out of luck, out of phase, out of place, out of sorts, out of time, peevish, petulant, planet-struck, pleasureless, poor, premature, prey to malaise, querulant, querulous, rebellious, repelled, resentful, restive, restless, revolted, rotten, sad, saddened, short of luck, sickened, sorrowful, sorry, sorryish, sour, star-crossed, suffering angst, sulky, tearful, too late, too soon, turned-off, unaccepting, unaccommodating, unappreciative, unapproving, unbefitting, unblessed, uncheerful, uncheery, uncomplimentary, underprivileged, undesirable, uneasy, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unfortunate, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhandy, unjoyful, unlucky, unmeet, unmirthful, unpleasant, unprofitable, unpropitious, unprosperous, unprovidential, unquiet, unready, unripe, unsatisfied, unseasonable, unseemly, unsmiling, unsuitable, unsuited, untimely, untoward, unwise, whiny, wooden, wretched, wrong

ROGET THESAURUS

unhappy

Adversity

N adversity, evil, failure, bad luck, ill luck, evil luck, adverse luck, hard fortune, hard hap, hard luck, hard lot, frowns of fortune, evil dispensation, evil star, evil genius, vicissitudes of life, ups and downs of life, broken fortunes, hard case, hard lines, hard life, sea of troubles, peck of troubles, hell upon earth, slough of despond, trouble, hardship, curse, blight, blast, load, pressure, pressure of the times, iron age, evil day, time out of joint, hard times, bad times, sad times, rainy day, cloud, dark cloud, gathering clouds, ill wind, visitation, infliction, affliction, bitter pill, care, trial, the sport of fortune, mishap, mischance, misadventure, misfortune, disaster, calamity, catastrophe, accident, casualty, cross, reverse, check, contretemps, rub, backset, comedown, setback, losing game, falling, fall, downfall, ruination, ruinousness, undoing, extremity, ruin, unfortunate, unblest, unhappy, unlucky, improsperous, unprosperous, hoodooed, luckless, hapless, out of luck, in trouble, in a bad way, in an evil plight, under a cloud, clouded, ill off, badly off, in adverse circumstances, poor, behindhand, down in the world, decayed, undone, on the road to ruin, on its last legs, on the wane, in one's utmost need, planet-struck, devoted, born under an evil star, born with a wooden ladle in one's mouth, ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened, adverse, untoward, disastrous, calamitous, ruinous, dire, deplorable.

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.

Dejection

N dejection, dejectedness, depression, prosternation, lowness of spirits, depression of spirits, weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits, low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits, heart sinking, heaviness of heart, failure of heart, heaviness, infestivity, gloom, weariness, taedium vitae, disgust of life, mal du pays, anhedonia, melancholy, sadness, il penseroso, melancholia, dismals, blues, lachrymals, mumps, dumps, blue devils, doldrums, vapors, megrims, spleen, horrors, hypochondriasis, pessimism, la maladie sans maladie, despondency, slough of Despond, disconsolateness, hope deferred, blank despondency, voiceless woe, prostration of soul, broken heart, despair, cave of despair, cave of Trophonius demureness, gravity, solemnity, long face, grave face, hypochondriac, seek sorrow, self-tormentor, heautontimorumenos, malade imaginaire, medecin tant pis, croaker, pessimist, mope, mopus, affliction, sorry sight, memento mori, damper, wet blanket, Job's comforter, cheerless, joyless, spiritless, uncheerful, uncheery, unlively, unhappy, melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste, clouded, murky, lowering, frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful, lamentable, dreadful, dreary, flat, dull, dull as a beetle, dull as ditchwater, depressing, melancholy as a gib cat, oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, down in one's luck, heavy-hearted, in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums, in doleful dumps, in bad humor, sullen, mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping, moody, glum, sulky, out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits, ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low, weary, discouraged, disheartened, desponding, chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen, sad, pensive, penseroso, tristful, dolesome, doleful, woebegone, lacrymose, lachrymose, in tears, melancholic, hypped, hypochondriacal, bilious, jaundiced, atrabilious, saturnine, splenetic, lackadaisical, serious, sedate, staid, stayed, grave as a judge, grave as an undertaker, grave as a mustard pot, sober, sober as a judge, solemn, demure, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, rueful, wan, long-faced, disconsolate, unconsolable, inconsolable, forlorn, comfortless, desolate, desole, sick at heart, soul sick, heart sick, au desespoir, in despair, lost, overcome, broken down, borne down, bowed down, heartstricken, cut up, dashed, sunk, unnerved, unmanned, down fallen, downtrodden, broken-hearted, careworn, with a long face, with tears in one's eyes, sadly, the countenance falling, the heart failing, the heart sinking within one, a plague of sighing and grief, thick-ey'd musing and curs'd melancholy, the sickening pang of hope deferred.