different between funereal vs unhappy
funereal
English
Alternative forms
- funeral (uncommon)
Etymology
From Middle French funerail, from Latin funereus +? -al.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /fju??n????.?l/
Adjective
funereal (comparative more funereal, superlative most funereal)
- Of or relating to a funeral.
- 2000, George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 474:
- Seven were chosen to push the funereal boat to the water, in honor of the seven faces of god.
- 2000, George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 474:
- Similar to a funeral in mood; dignified or solemn.
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:
- There was something menacing and uncomfortable in the funereal stillness, in the muffled, subtle trickle of distant brooks, and in the crowding green peaks and black-wooded precipices that choked the narrow horizon.
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:
Translations
funereal From the web:
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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)
- Not happy; sad.
- 1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera
- A moment of time may make us unhappy forever.
- 1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera
- 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.
- 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?
- The people, if they are not strangely bent
- 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
Synonyms
- (not happy): See Thesaurus:sad or Thesaurus:lamentable
Antonyms
- happy
- glad
- delighted
- exuberant
- joyous
- joyful
Translations
Noun
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 […]
- 1972, The New Yorker (volume 48, part 1, page 109)
Middle English
Noun
unhappy
- unhap
unhappy From the web:
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- what unhappy customers want
- what unhappy crowds do
- what unhappy triad
- unhappy what to do
- what are unhappy cranberries called
- what does unhappy mean
- what is unhappy marriage
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