undelight
undelight noun: the condition or feeling of lacking delight; unhappiness or displeasure.
Noun
undelight (countable and uncountable, plural undelights)
- The condition or feeling of lacking delight; unhappiness or displeasure.
- Loud rise the sounds of sorrow, day and night,
Where friends, clasped close in lingering undelight,
Weep at the thought of parting. Matrons, ay,1907, Virgil, The Æneid (trans. E. Fairfax Taylor), J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- Synonyms:
- discontent, dissatisfaction, misery, sorrow, blueness, tristesse, mirthless, blues, crestfallenness, dejection
- Loud rise the sounds of sorrow, day and night,
- Something unpleasant or displeasing.
- Along with the jollity of the trip from Tsing Hua into Peking are many undelights.1931, Esther Frayne Hayes, At Home in China, W. Neale, published 1931, page 82
- Synonyms:
- hardship, sorrow, affliction, aggrievance, distress, grief, grievance, misery, ruth, sadness
Synonyms of undelight
- discontent
- dissatisfaction
- misery
- sorrow
- blueness
- tristesse
- mirthless
- blues
- crestfallenness
- dejection
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- depression
- despondency
- distress
- dolefulness
- downheartedness
- forlornness
- grief
- ill-being
- infelicity
- melancholia
- melancholy
- mourn
- sadness
- sorrowfulness
- tristfulness
- unhappiness
- woe
- woefare
- wretchedness
- hardship
- affliction
- aggrievance
- grievance
- vexation
- wrong
- drearihead
- heartsore
- mishappiness
- prosternation
- regret
Forms of undelight
| plural | undelights |
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Origin of undelight
From un- + delight.
Questions about undelight
- What does undelight mean?
- Undelight means the condition or feeling of lacking delight; unhappiness or displeasure.
- What part of speech is undelight?
- Undelight is a noun.
- What is the plural of undelight?
- The plural of undelight is undelights.
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