unhappy

English

un- +‎ happy

unhappy (comparative unhappier, superlative unhappiest)

Not happy; sad.
- John Gay, The Beggar's Opera
  A moment of time may make us unhappy forever.
Not satisfied; unsatisfied.
An unhappy customer is unlikely to return to your shop.
(chiefly dated) Not lucky; unlucky.
The doomed lovers must have been born under an unhappy star.
(chiefly dated) Not suitable; unsuitable.
- John Foxe
  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?

not happy; sad

Armenian: դժբախտ (hy) (džbaxt)
Bulgarian: нещастен (bg) (neštasten)
Catalan: infeliç (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 不高興, 不高兴 (bù gāoxìng), 不開心, 不开心 (bù kāixīn), 不愉快 (bù yúkuài), 傷心 (zh), 伤心 (zh) (shāngxīn)
Cornish: moredhek
Czech: nešťastný
Esperanto: malfeliĉa
Finnish: onneton (fi)
French: malheureux (fr), triste (fr)
Georgian: მწუხარე (mc̣uxare), სევდიანი (sevdiani), დარდიანი (dardiani), ნაღვლიანი (naɣvliani)
German: unglücklich (de)
Greek:
Ancient: μέλεος (méleos)
Haitian Creole: malere
Italian: triste (it), rattristato (it), mogio (it), abbacchiato (it), afflitto (it), avvilito (it), malinconico (it), mesto (it), infelice (it), egro (it)

Norwegian:
Bokmål: ulykkelig

Nynorsk: ulukkeleg, ulykkeleg
Old English: wansǣliġ
Pashto: غمجن‎ (ps) (ğamjan), خپه‎ (ps) (xapa), خواشينی‎ (ps) (xwâšinay)
Portuguese: infeliz (pt), triste (pt)
Romanian: nefericit (ro)
Russian: несча́стный (ru) (nesčástnyj), несчастли́вый (ru) (nesčastlívyj), гру́стный (ru) (grústnyj), печа́льный (ru) (pečálʹnyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: несретан

Roman: nesretan (sh)
Spanish: infeliz (es)
Swedish: olycklig (sv)
Turkish: mutsuz (tr), üzgün (tr)

not satisfied; unsatisfied

not lucky; unlucky

not suitable; unsuitable

Chinese:
Mandarin: 不適宜, 不适宜 (bù shìyí), 不適合, 不适合 (bù shìhé), 不適當, 不适当 (bù shìdàng)
Finnish: sopimaton (fi)

unhappy (plural unhappies)

An individual who is not happy.
- 1972, The New Yorker (volume 48, part 1, page 109)
  Leduc, as is true of many other unhappies, is largely a confessional writer: her subject is herself, and her gift is a driving, vivacious power that turns her incurable, inveterate unhappiness into a series of dramas […]

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