unhappening
unhappening is the present participle and gerund of unhappen.
Meaning of unhappen
Verb
unhappen (third-person singular simple present unhappens, present participle unhappening, simple past and past participle unhappened)
- To cease to have happened; to undo itself.
- I wish everything that happened between us could unhappen, and we could start again.
Noun
unhappening (plural unhappenings)
- A happening that fails to occur; a nonevent.
- The stage was set for the Greening of America, but by lunchtime of the first day, the meeting had dissolved into an unhappening, as shouting matches broke out among deep ecologists, feminists, animal liberationists, anarchists...1990, Stephanie Mills, Tom Brokaw, Jeanne Carstensen, In praise of nature, page 87
- British aid to Bulgarian partisans was defined, by silence, as a non-event, an unhappening. No official statement acknowledging this aid has ever been made.1997, Edward Palmer Thompson, Beyond the frontier: the politics of a failed mission, Bulgaria 1944, page 43
Adjective
unhappening (comparative more unhappening, superlative most unhappening)
- Uneventful.
- Next day, it was time for us to leave and believe me, the return journey was the most unhappening journey I had experienced in my entire life. […] The entire 45 minutes of the journey were devoted in looking towards my QUEEN, only to get a reaction.2017, Grahadish Sharma, Love Does Cost Sometimes: A World of Platonic Love, page 67
- The next few months were dark and unhappening for Gautam.2022, Kumar Kanhaiya, Gold Star, page 30
Forms of unhappening
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | unhappenings |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more unhappening |
| superlative | most unhappening |
Questions about unhappening
- What does unhappening mean?
- Unhappening means a happening that fails to occur; a nonevent.
- What is unhappening the present participle and gerund of?
- Unhappening is the present participle and gerund of unhappen.
- What part of speech is unhappening?
- Unhappening can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of unhappening?
- The plural of unhappening is unhappenings.
Words near unhappening in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unhappening (page history and authors); unhappen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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