Word Meanings - UNHAPPY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

Additional info about word: UNHAPPY

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. Shak. -- Un*hap"pi*ly, adv. -- Un*hap"pi*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNHAPPY)

• Disconsolate
• Sad
• forlorn
• melancholy
• inconsolable
• brokenhearted
• sorrowful
• unhappy
• desolate
• woful
• Grievous
• heavy
• afflictive
• lamentable
• deplorable
• painful
• burdensome
• calamitous
• baleful
• hurtful
• disastrous

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of UNHAPPY)

• People
• colonize
• plant
• develop
• fertilize
• cultivate
• enrich
• enliven

Related words: (words related to UNHAPPY)

• DESOLATE
  1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an
• HURTFUL
  Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct. Syn. -- Pernicious; harmful; baneful; prejudicial; detrimental; disadvantageous; mischievous; injurious; noxious; unwholesome;
• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• PLANTIGRADE
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
• AFFLICTIVE
  Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• FORLORNLY
  In a forlorn manner. Pollok.
• FORLORNNESS
  State of being forlorn. Boyle.
• DEPLORABLENESS
  State of being deplorable.
• PLANTOCRACY
  Government by planters; planters, collectively.
• PLANTERSHIP
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• PLANTLESS
  Without plants; barren of vegetation.
• BALEFULNESS
  The quality or state of being baleful.
• COLONIZER
  One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist. Bancroft.
• HEAVY-HEADED
  Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.
• PAINFUL
  1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing Addison. 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. 3. Painstaking;
• DEVELOPABLE
  Capable of being developed. J. Peile. Developable surface , a surface described by a moving right line, and such that consecutive positions of the generator intersect each other. Hence, the surface can be developed into a plane.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• SELF-FERTILIZED
  Fertilized by pollen from the same flower.
• NONDEVELOPMENT
  Failure or lack of development.
• LAMINIPLANTAR
  Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• IMPLANTATION
  The act or process of implantating.
• TOP-HEAVY
  Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton.
• EGGPLANT
  A plant , of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.