unhappier

Adjective

unhappy (comparative unhappier or more unhappy, superlative unhappiest or most unhappy)

1. Not happy; sad.
   • I am unhappy.

   Synonyms:

   sad, lamentable, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless

   Antonyms:

   delighted, exuberant, glad, happy, joyous, joyful

2. Not satisfied; unsatisfied.
   • An unhappy customer is unlikely to return to your shop.

   Synonyms:

   dissatisfied, uncontented

3. (dated) Not lucky; unlucky.
   • The doomed lovers must have been born under an unhappy star.

   Synonyms:

   hapless, unpropitious, down on one's luck, fortuneless, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-starred, inauspicious, infelicitous, infortunate

4. (dated) Not 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?1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   unfit, inappropriate, bad, discommensurate, improper, malapropos, inapt, incommensurate, inept, inopportune

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