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Unhappiness

Unhappy \Un*hap"py\, a.

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

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

  3. Marked by infelicity; evil; calamitous; as, an unhappy day. ``The unhappy morn.''
    --Milton.

  4. Mischievous; wanton; wicked. [Obs.]
    --Shak. [1913 Webster] -- Un*hap"pi*ly, adv. -- Un*hap"pi*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unhappiness

late 15c., "misfortune," from unhappy + -ness. Meaning "mental misery" is from 1722.

Wiktionary
unhappiness

n. The feeling of not being happy

WordNet
unhappiness
  1. n. emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being [syn: sadness] [ant: happiness]

  2. state characterized by emotions ranging from mild discontentment to deep grief [ant: happiness]

Usage examples of "unhappiness".

While the lack of physical adaptitude may be the occasion of much suffering and unhappiness in such unions, especially on the part of the wife, being even productive of most serious local disease, and sometimes of sterility, it is in childbirth that the greatest risk and suffering is incurred.

This plan of yours to precede Boa to Boston is almost certain to lead to unhappiness for both of you.

But he was not happy, and it was hard to explain to Boa, who was the underlying cause of this unhappiness, why this should be so.

No one tries to conceal from me the unhappiness over the news of the breakthrough on the Russian front.

Because having total strangers confide their unhappiness gives Citronella a psychological lift.

We could not, even then, suppose ourselves unhappy unless we dreaded unhappiness after death, and such an idea strikes me as absurd, for it is a contradiction of the idea of an almighty and fatherly tenderness.

Like Kira inside Crim or Crim inside Kira, it was creating great stress and unhappiness and had the potential to drive her mad, a potential almost realized in her initial situation with this potion-created mate of hers, and after, where she has always taken the easy way out to flee her own inner demons.

But her women and those that knew her best, deemed that whatso she were, she had slain herself, as they thought, for some unhappiness of love.

She was sorry for Myra Deyre for she realized how much real unhappiness and misery lay behind these hysterical outbursts.

I then sent it to the horrible being who had caused me such unhappiness.

As soon as I had seen these women in the hands of justice I fled, tasting the sweets of vengeance, which are very great, but yet a sign of unhappiness.

Simply, he held her until he could feel the stiffness of her outrage fade into the soft sounds of sobs as she cried out all her unhappiness and homesickness for the world she had left behind in Connecticut.

Then I would often think that Zelmi, the eighth wonder of creation in the eyes of her father might not appear such in my eyes, and it would have been enough to make me miserable, for Yusuf was likely to live twenty years longer, and I felt that gratitude, as well as respect, would never have permitted me to give that excellent man any cause for unhappiness by ceasing to shew myself a devoted and faithful husband to his daughter.

Berlinton, who indulged, in full extent, every feeling, but investigated none, had been piqued and hurt to extreme unhappiness at the late conduct of Bellamy.

Utopian philosopher, therefore, was whether this was an inevitable alternation, whether human progress was necessarily a series of developments, collapses, and fresh beginnings, after an interval of disorder, unrest, and often great unhappiness, or whether it was possible to maintain a secure, happy, and progressive State beside an unbroken flow of poietic activity.