unhappy

adjective

Pronunciation: /ʌnˈhæpi/

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

Not happy; sad.
“I am unhappy.”
“A moment of time may make us unhappy forever.”
Not satisfied; unsatisfied.
“An unhappy customer is unlikely to return to your shop.”
Not lucky; unlucky.
“The doomed lovers must have been born under an unhappy star.”
“The pointed shaft of the cart had entered the breast of the unhappy Prince like a sword, and from the wound his life's blood was spouting in a stream, and falling with a hiss into the road.”
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?”

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

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 […]”

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

To make or become unhappy; to sadden.
“A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments, By you unhappied and disfigured clean”
“In the greate desire I have unto your grace's service, nothing has more unhappied me than the wante of opportunitie in which I might expresse the character of my harte that onlie takes of your impressions.”