Synonyms for unhappiness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : uhn-hap-ee

Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈhæp i

Top 10 synonyms for unhappiness

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Définition of unhappiness

Origin : c.1300, "causing misfortune or trouble (to oneself or others)," from un- (1) "not" + happy. Meaning "unfortunate, unlucky" is recorded from late 14c.; sense of "miserable, wretched" is recorded from late 14c. (originally via misfortune or mishap).

noun sorrow
noun depression

Example sentences :

All very well to say there would be no punishment; their unhappiness was the punishment.
Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair

Why should he efface himself, if it meant Sidney's unhappiness?
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

But her unhappiness was not because the Padres had been killed.
Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin

Can you possibly suppose that I was aware of her unhappiness!
Extract from : « Lady Susan » by Jane Austen

Her letter to me admitted her error, and confessed her unhappiness; but there was no remedy.
Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper

It was you who turned her mind against me, and incited her to unhappiness in the home I had given her.
Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic

The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him.
Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce

I think that my unhappiness had as much to do with my father's insistence on the change, as anything.
Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance

In that instant was planted the second germ of unhappiness in Hetty's bosom.
Extract from : « Hetty's Strange History » by Anonymous

For the unhappiness of Youth is preferable to the resignation of Age.
Extract from : « The Slave Of The Lamp » by Henry Seton Merriman

Antonyms for unhappiness

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