unhappy

adj

1. sad, disconsolate, dejected, depressed, despondent, melancholic; forlorn, woeful, woebegone, Obs. baleful, downhearted, heartsick, broken-hearted, crestfallen, crushed, broken; blue, heavy-hearted, long-faced, somber, heavy, glum; low-spirited, disheartened, discouraged, Inf. broken-up, Inf. cut-up, cast down, Sl. bummed-out; desolate, despairing, hopeless, worried, afflicted, grieved, stricken, heavy-laden; mournful, sorrowful, dolorous, doleful, lachrymose, inconsolable; tearful, rueful, joyless, cheerless, grief-stricken; forlorn, chapfallen, pessimistic, plaintive, downcast, unmanned, Inf. down in the mouth.

2. unfortunate, unlucky, hapless, luckless, unprosperous, out of luck; unblessed, hopeless, wretched, cursed, accursed, crossed; ill-starred, ill-fated, star-crossed, born under an evil star; jinxed, hoodooed, Jonahesque, under a cloud, born with a wooden ladle in one's mouth; balked, thwarted, jilted, victimized, dashed, foiled; bereft, poor, unsuccessful, impoverished, born on the wrong side of the tracks.

3. unfavorable, inauspicious, unpropitious, unlucky, unpromising; ill-omened, ill-boding, ill, foul, sinister, bad, malign; ominous, menacing, threatening, minacious, lowering, looming; unseasonable, untimely, inopportune, disadvantageous; discouraging, indisposed, opposed, antagonistic, inhibitive.

4. infelicitous, unsuitable, inappropriate, inapt, malapropos; incorrect, out of place, awkward, injudicious; inapposite, unadvisable, ill-advised, impertinent, unwise; unbefitting, indecorous, unbecoming; inexpedient, foolish, inept, out of keeping.