unhappy

aggettivo

1. 1

   Not happy; sad.

   I am unhappy.

   A moment of time may make us unhappy forever.

2. 2

   Not satisfied; unsatisfied.

   An unhappy customer is unlikely to return to your shop.

3. 3

   desuetoNot 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.

4. 4

   desuetoNot 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?

sostantivo

1. 1

   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 […]

verbo

1. 1

   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.

   They unhappied their estates by sinning against God, and of glorious Angels became unclean devils: there is not part of the work of Gods hands so eternally cast away, reserved in chains of darknesse for the judgement of the last day.

   Nor do these unhappying beings, after they become the property of Europeans (from whom as a more civilized people, more humanity might naturally be expected), find their situation in the least amended.

Forme

plurale

unhappies

comparativo

unhappier, more unhappy

superlativo

unhappiest, most unhappy

passato

unhappied

participio passato

unhappied

participio presente

unhappying

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unhappies