Synonyms for unhappy
ʌnˈhæp iun·hap·py

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1. unhappyadjective

   Antonyms:
   delighted, happy, joyous, exuberant, glad, joyful

2. unhappyadjective

   Antonyms:
   delighted, joyful, glad, exuberant, joyous, happy

3. unhappyadjective

   Antonyms:
   delighted, happy, glad, exuberant, joyous, joyful

4. unhappyadjective

   Antonyms:
   joyous, glad, happy, joyful, exuberant, delighted

5. unhappyadjective

   Antonyms:
   joyful, glad, exuberant, delighted, happy, joyous

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1. unhappy

   Synonyms:
   broken, crushed, fallen, ill-starred, miserable, unfortunate, unlucky, woful, wretched

   Antonyms:
   favored, fortunate, happy, lucky, prospered, prosperous, successful

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1. unhappy

   Synonyms:
   miserable, wretched, distressed, afflicted, painful, disastrous, drear, dismal

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1. unhappyadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   distressed, dysphoric, infelicitous

   Antonyms:
   halcyon, happy, golden, blissful, fortunate, bright, laughing(a), blessed, pleasant, prosperous, riant

2. dysphoric, distressed, unhappyadjective

   generalized feeling of distress

   Synonyms:
   worried, disquieted, in a bad way(p), disturbed, distressed, infelicitous, hard-pressed, dysphoric, hard put, stressed, upset

   Antonyms:
   halcyon, prosperous, bright, blessed, blissful, golden, happy, fortunate, riant, laughing(a), pleasant

3. unhappyadjective

   causing discomfort

   "the unhappy truth"

   Synonyms:
   distressed, dysphoric, infelicitous

   Antonyms:
   riant, blissful, bright, laughing(a), pleasant, blessed, prosperous, halcyon, fortunate, golden, happy

4. infelicitous, unhappyadjective

   marked by or producing unhappiness

   "infelicitous circumstances"; "unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes"- American Guide Series

   Synonyms:
   distressed, infelicitous, dysphoric

   Antonyms:
   bright, blissful, halcyon, happy, riant, fortunate, blessed, golden, laughing(a), prosperous, pleasant

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1. unmirthful

   not mirthful or happy, by adding the prefix "un" it becomes synonym for unhappy.

   i had been unmirthful in the past, because of my depression, but now i'm perfectly fine and therefore much more mirthful than i used to be.

   Submitted by rinat on August 20, 2019  

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1. unhappyadjective

   Synonyms:
   wretched, miserable, distressed, afflicted

2. unhappyadjective

   Synonyms:
   grievous, disastrous, calamitous, sore, severe, hard, trying, painful, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, sad, afflicting, afflictive, distressing, deplorable, dire

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1. unhappyadjective

   Synonyms:
   infelicitous, unfortunate, miserable, wretched, sad, sorrowful, disconsolate, woeful, distressed, heart-sick, mournful, lugubrious, deplorable, calamitous, distressing, grievous, inauspicious, unpropitious, malign

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1. List of paraphrases for "unhappy":

   unfortunate, dissatisfied, miserable, sad, displeased, disgruntled, unappy, unpleasant, disaffected, unlucky, hapless, wretched, disappointed, discontented

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How to use unhappy in a sentence?

1. Jean Anouilh:

   The true masters of the art of living are already happy if they are not unhappy.

2. Jamie Hodari:

   The dominant trend right now in commercial real estate is this increasing push for flexibility among tenants, you just can't compete for talent anymore if people walk into your office and it looks unpleasant and unhappy and outdated.

3. Josh Bivens:

   For now, people are unhappy and inflation is why.

4. Elizabeth Novak:

   I just want to tell you what happens when I get to work, i have to clean up the poop and the pee off of my doorstep. I have to clean up the syringes. I have to fight off people that push their way into my shop that are homeless and on drugs because you wont arrest them for drug offenses. I have to apologize to my clients. So I want to know what youre going to do for us, the ones that are unhappy.

5. Leo Tolstoy:

   Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.