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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unhappy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a happy/unhappy marriage
▪ Ours was a very happy marriage.
an unhappy knack (=a knack that you would not want)
▪ He had the unhappy knack of making enemies.
desperately unhappy/lonely/worried etc
distinctly uncomfortable/uneasy/unhappy etc
happy/unhappy memories
▪ Many people have unhappy memories of being forced to play team sports.
happy/unhappy
▪ Her parents divorced and her childhood was unhappy.
have a happy/unhappy etc childhood
▪ I wish I'd had a happy childhood like yours.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ Some patients and carers were also unhappy about what they saw as sub-optimal care or different services passing the buck.
▪ People were also unhappy about relatives being moved to reservations some distance away.
▪ I think he is proud, and also unhappy.
▪ Meanwhile, customers were also unhappy Kodak was too slow, too late, and too error ridden.
▪ Creditors are also unhappy about the way the business has ceased trading under one of its names.
▪ They are also unhappy with the legislation for police reform, which they believe does not go far enough.
deeply
▪ Her husband was apparently a heavy drinker, and their marriage was deeply unhappy.
▪ And his family is deeply unhappy and divided over political and social issues of the day.
▪ Ian Gilmour and Peter Walker were deeply unhappy.
▪ They are deeply unhappy about the fact that Chirac, as president, enjoys immunity.
▪ Suddenly again it was a deeply unhappy time.
▪ For over two long, deeply unhappy years, it had been a prison.
▪ Charlie was heartbroken: Robert was deeply unhappy.
▪ Clearly, he was surprised and deeply unhappy to see me.
desperately
▪ I was desperately unhappy, almost suicidal.
▪ No hopeless lover of a living maiden was ever so desperately unhappy as Pygmallon.
▪ Although in other poems Leapor shows that labouring class women can be desperately unhappy in marriage, she is not unequivocal.
▪ He said she was desperately unhappy.
▪ She sounds desperately unhappy, poor thing, and perhaps she should talk to a psychiatrist.
▪ The fact was that Sir Herbert was a desperately unhappy man.
▪ All of that I could understand, but it concerned me that she was so nervous and desperately unhappy.
▪ Their relationship had become conflict-ridden to the point where each of them was desperately unhappy.
how
▪ Look how unhappy you've made her!
▪ I was thinking how unhappy you looked.
▪ You can imagine, Ellen, how unhappy I felt in that unpleasant house.
▪ Her parents had had the sense to realise how unhappy she was, and had made alternative arrangements.
more
▪ Their faces got more and more unhappy.
▪ The more she got, the more unhappy she became.
▪ Two days passed and Angel's cries became more unhappy.
▪ Experience with exotic plants and insects has been even more unhappy than with animal importations.
▪ There were two more unhappy faces in the Opera House, too.
▪ I doubt if anyone could have been much more unhappy than I was living with them at Maythorpe House.
so
▪ Gently, I said I wondered whether she had lost a child, whether that was why she was so unhappy.
▪ Now let us talk about something else, if it makes you so unhappy!
▪ She looked so unhappy, Jay didn't know what to do.
▪ I was so unhappy but I had nowhere else to go so I stayed until the baby was born.
▪ But why was her voice so unhappy?
▪ Now I feel so unhappy and jealous when I see babies or pregnant women.
still
▪ After saving mankind, Re was still unhappy and felt weak and old.
▪ It separated again in 1845, still unhappy with the federal government's control over its governor.
▪ However, MEPs are still unhappy about the directive.
▪ If you are still unhappy you can change to another practice.
▪ But we are still unhappy to have lost our holiday for something that seemed out of our control.
▪ Only if the client is still unhappy would he be directed to the Solicitors Complaints Bureau.
▪ We've got the replacement council tax to come and many people are still unhappy.
▪ If you are still unhappy contact the Service Dept at the Land Rover factory.
very
▪ But he looks very unhappy, too ... and afraid.
▪ It is my great sorrow, and makes my life very unhappy.
▪ Poor Julia and I had very unhappy lives.
▪ When Oates first saw the ponies, in New Zealand, he was very unhappy.
▪ I was very unhappy, because I saw then that I was on an island.
▪ She was a very lovely but very unhappy woman.
▪ Emily had only been away from home twice, and each time she had been very unhappy.
▪ I was very unhappy, physically and psychologically ill.
■ NOUN
child
▪ There is also a multiplication effect created by unhappy children.
childhood
▪ They find that unhappy childhoods are behind many difficulties in later life.
▪ She had an unhappy childhood in Weston-super-Mare, and was briefly sent to boarding-school in Devizes at the age of eight.
▪ The debris of Franca's unhappy childhood had been swept away long ago.
▪ Case example Jenny, a single girl aged 27, had experienced an unhappy childhood.
experience
▪ They consider that you can only move on from an unhappy experience if you have given it some meaning.
▪ The thought of returning to the merchant world, even after this unhappy experience, was less than welcome.
▪ There are those who have reservations about the value of choirs or other groups in worship, perhaps because of unhappy experience.
man
▪ The fact was that Sir Herbert was a desperately unhappy man.
▪ My father was an unstable and unhappy man.
▪ Ahead towered Robinsgrove - such a large house for one unhappy man.
▪ So different from the brooding and unhappy man of a week ago.
▪ Five tired, unhappy men, in the coldest, emptiest place on earth.
marriage
▪ If he ever married, then it would be an unhappy marriage.
▪ Perhaps this was a painful subject, what with his own unhappy marriage to Jane.
▪ He revealed details of the royal couple's unhappy marriage and told of Diana's bulimia.
▪ An unhappy marriage is more likely to be explained in terms of current stresses than in relation to what has gone on long before.
▪ But in spite of the unhappy marriages, people go on marrying and remarrying, don't they?
▪ Diana's parents had had an unhappy marriage.
▪ He was an only child whose parents had had an unhappy marriage, with rows and infidelities.
memory
▪ New York city is reviving unhappy memories of its near-crash in the 1970s.
▪ Perhaps this unhappy memory has clouded the overall impression of the country, which is unfortunate.
▪ Ruth shook her head, trying to put these unhappy memories from her mind.
▪ It's so full of unhappy memories - and I don't want to face the possibility of bumping into Uncle Joe.
time
▪ Thames Valley police are hoping their action will make it an unhappy time for thieves.
▪ The family needed help to discuss these unhappy times with Darren and understand the immense distress and confusion he must have felt.
▪ Suddenly again it was a deeply unhappy time.
woman
▪ Who knew what an unhappy woman might say in such straits, and how little she might mean it?
▪ She gave off the peculiar strength of presence that unhappy women sometimes radiate.
▪ She is not an unhappy woman, by comparison.
▪ She was a very lovely but very unhappy woman.
▪ Some unhappy women, whose husbands are unable to offer them emotional support, quite inappropriately turn to their sons.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an unhappy love affair
▪ Arlene has had an unhappy life.
▪ Her parents' divorce left her feeling confused and unhappy
▪ I felt so unhappy about what he had said that I just sat down and cried.
▪ Looking at that photo always bring back unhappy memories.
▪ Neil was very unhappy at school.
▪ Phil was married for three unhappy years.
▪ She was desperately unhappy after Sean left her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the unhappy customer base stayed loyal in enormous numbers so that the company is now reaping the benefit.
▪ Compassionate capitalists know that all this talk of love is humbug and poppycock when people are hungry, homeless, and unhappy.
▪ Enemas and suppositories may be of use but habitual use of these can create an unhappy and strained parent-child relationship.
▪ Her husband was apparently a heavy drinker, and their marriage was deeply unhappy.
▪ It was an unhappy coincidence that she had appeared from the direction of Midway.
▪ Sefton Hamilton entered the room as a gale might hit an unhappy seaside town.
▪ Williams is unhappy because his father was a tough, unlovable brute whom he couldn't help loving.
▪ Yet there was communication, albeit of an unhappy quality.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unhappy

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
unhappy

c.1300, "causing misfortune or trouble (to oneself or others)," from un- (1) "not" + happy. Meaning "unfortunate, unlucky" is recorded from late 14c.; sense of "miserable, wretched" is recorded from late 14c. (originally via misfortune or mishap).

Wiktionary
unhappy

a. 1 Not happy; sad. 2 Not satisfied; unsatisfied. 3 Not lucky; unlucky. 4 Not suitable; unsuitable.

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WordNet
unhappy

  1. adj. experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent; "unhappy over her departure"; "unhappy with her raise"; "after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence"; "had an unhappy time at school"; "the unhappy (or sad) news"; "he looks so sad" [ant: happy]

  2. generalized feeling of distress [syn: dysphoric, distressed] [ant: euphoric]

  3. causing discomfort; "the unhappy truth"

  4. marked by or producing unhappiness; "infelicitous circumstances"; "unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes"- American Guide Series [syn: infelicitous]

  5. [also: unhappiest, unhappier]

Wikipedia
Unhappy

Unhappy may refer to:

  • an adjective denoting a person in a state of depression
  • Unhappy consciousness, a philosophical concept popularized by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • Unhappy numbers, a mathematical concept
  • Unhappy triad, a knee injury
  • Unhappy Mac, a legacy Macintosh startup screen
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Usage examples of "unhappy".

Contenting themselves, for the most part, with the milder chastisements of imprisonment, exile, or slavery in the mines, they left the unhappy victims of their justice some reason to hope, that a prosperous event, the accession, the marriage, or the triumph of an emperor, might speedily restore them, by a general pardon, to their former state.

In the meantime we may follow the unhappy fortunes of the small column which had, as already described, been sent out by Sir George White in order, if possible, to prevent the junction of the two Boer armies, and at the same time to threaten the right wing of the main force, which was advancing from the direction of Dundee, Sir George White throughout the campaign consistently displayed one quality which is a charming one in an individual, but may be dangerous in a commander.

The savage insensibility of Jovian appears to have aggravated the hardships of these unhappy fugitives.

These unhappy beings are invariably the victims of ague, which they meet recklessly, sustained by the incessant use of ardent spirits.

In the morning the royal captive was presented to Alp Arslan, who doubted of his fortune, till the identity of the person was ascertained by the report of his ambassadors, and by the more pathetic evidence of Basilacius, who embraced with tears the feet of his unhappy sovereign.

Tell me, sir, does that unhappy connection in your view deprive me of the armigerous rights of a gentleman?

Petya was most unhappy and was amazed to see that Auntie, far from being upset or down-hearted, gave the impression of everything being fine.

They are for unhappy people, like me, who must learn to distil by learned patience the aurum potabile from the husks of life, the peace which happier mortals find lying like manna each morn upon the meadows.

When Belding returned, and, instead of being accompanied by Wallace, merely brought a letter from him, the unhappy Susan would sink into fits of lamentation and weeping, and repel every effort to console her with an obstinacy that partook of madness.

If the gods were unhappy with Benet, all Tielmark would suffer a failed crop.

At the first unhappy yowl, Bozo pricked up his ears and saw the trouble his bothersome pup had gotten into.

Suffice it to say that, ere long, Bozo detected the faint but unmistakable spoor of a good-sized jinko and hunted it down, finally cornering the unhappy vegetable in a cul-de-sac formed by low, rocky hills.

After a short silence, the charming child tells me that my tears make her very unhappy, and that she had never supposed that she could cause them.

I spent my days in a continual state of rage and spite, and the most absurd part of it all was that I felt unhappy because I could not control my hatred for that woman whom, in good conscience, I could not find guilty of anything.

The stamp of truth was so well affixed to the first words you uttered that I could not have the shadow of a doubt left in me as to your being the unhappy victim of the most natural of all feelings, and as to your having abandoned your home through a sentiment of honour.