different between disastrous vs unhappy

disastrous

English

Etymology

From French désastreux, from Middle French desastre (disaster) (modern désastre), from Italian disastro, itself from dis- (away, without) (from Latin) + astro (star, planet) (from Latin astrum 'star, celestial body', from Ancient Greek (astron)).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /d??z??st??s/

Adjective

disastrous (comparative more disastrous, superlative most disastrous)

  1. Of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
  2. Foreboding disaster; ill-omened.

Synonyms

  • (calamitous): cataclysmic, catastrophic
  • (ill-omened): ill-boding, inauspicious, sinister

Antonyms

  • auspicious
  • fortunate

Derived terms

  • disastrously

Translations

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  • what disastrous means
  • what disaster event happened
  • what does disastrous mean
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unhappy

English

Etymology

un- +? happy

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n?hæpi/
  • Rhymes: -æpi

Adjective

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

  1. Not happy; sad.
    • 1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera
      A moment of time may make us unhappy forever.
  2. Not satisfied; unsatisfied.
    An unhappy customer is unlikely to return to your shop.
  3. (chiefly dated) Not lucky; unlucky.
    The doomed lovers must have been born under an unhappy star.
  4. (chiefly dated) Not suitable; unsuitable.
    • 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
      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?

Synonyms

  • (not happy): See Thesaurus:sad or Thesaurus:lamentable

Antonyms

  • happy
  • glad
  • delighted
  • exuberant
  • joyous
  • joyful

Translations

Noun

unhappy (plural unhappies)

  1. 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 []

Middle English

Noun

unhappy

  1. unhap

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  • what does unhappy mean
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