unhappy

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent

   We are unhappy to see you leave, but hope you come back soon.

2. 2
   adj

   causing discomfort

   the unhappy truth

3. 3
   adj

   Not happy; sad.

   I am unhappy.

4. 4
   adj

   Not satisfied; unsatisfied.

   An unhappy customer is unlikely to return to your shop.

5. 5
   adj

   Not lucky; unlucky.

   The doomed lovers must have been born under an unhappy star.

6. 6
   adj

   Not suitable; unsuitable.

   The people, if they are not strangely bent Against our welfare, never will consent To this unhappy match, foreboding ill: What's it to us, if th' adverse nation will?

7. 7
   noun

   A person who is not happy.

   Leduc, as is true of many other unhappies, is largely a confessional writer: her subject is herself, and her gift is a driving, vivacious power that turns her incurable, inveterate unhappiness into a series of dramas […]

8. 8
   verb

   To make or become unhappy; to sadden.

   A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments, By you unhappied and disfigured clean

Etymology

From Middle English unhappy; equivalent to un- + happy.