unhappy

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

adj. unlucky, unfortunate; sad, sorrowful, wretched, miserable, dolorous, despondent, disconsolate, inconsolable, gloomy, joyless; inappropriate, dismal; calamitous, disastrous, catastrophic. See dejection, adversity.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

1. [Sad]

Syn. miserable, sorrowful, wretched; see troubled 1 .

2. [Unfortunate]

Syn. afflicted, troubled, in a desperate plight; see unfortunate 2 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.

1. sad depressed, melancholy, downhearted, miserable, *blue, *down in the mouth, *down in the dumps, low, griefstricken, mournful, downhearted, heavy-hearted, gloomy, despondent, disconsolate, forlorn, long-faced, disheartened, desolate, cheerless, anguished, glum, *bummed out, wretched, somber, crestfallen.

2. unlucky unfortunate, inauspicious, hapless, cursed, star-crossed, ill-fated, jinxed, infelicitous.

ANT.: 1. happy, joyous, glad, beaming, elated, euphoric. 2. lucky, fortunate

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. In low spirits: blue, dejected, depressed, desolate, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, dull, dysphoric, gloomy, heavy-hearted, low, melancholic, melancholy, sad, spiritless, tristful, wistful. Idiom: down at (or in) the mouth. See HAPPY. 2. Involving or undergoing chance misfortune: hapless, ill-fated, ill-starred, luckless, star-crossed, unfortunate, unlucky, untoward. See LUCK. 3. Characterized by inappropriateness and gracelessness, especially in expression: awkward, ill-chosen, inappropriate, inept, infelicitous, unfortunate. See ABILITY, GOOD.