different between unhappy vs dispirited

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

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??sp???t?d/

Verb

dispirited

1. simple past tense and past participle of dispirit

Adjective

dispirited (comparative more dispirited, superlative most dispirited)

1. Without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.

   So dispirited were the troops after the loss of their beloved commander that they moped about and could barely be bothered to eat let alone load their guns.

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