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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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severe

English

Etymology

From Middle French, from Latin severus (severe, serious, grave in demeanor).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /s??v??/ (US) IPA(key): /s??v?r/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)

Adjective

severe (comparative severer or more severe, superlative severest or most severe)

  1. Very bad or intense.
  2. Strict or harsh.
    a severe taskmaster
  3. Sober, plain in appearance, austere.
    a severe old maiden aunt

Synonyms

Antonyms

  • (very bad or intense): mild
  • (very bad or intense): minor
  • (strict or harsh): lenient

Derived terms

  • severely (adverb)
  • severity (noun)
  • severeness (noun)

Translations

Further reading

  • severe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • severe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • severe at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • Reeves, everse, reeves, servee

Esperanto

Adverb

severe

  1. severely

Related terms

  • severa

Italian

Adjective

severe

  1. feminine plural of severo

Latin

Verb

s?v?re

  1. third-person plural perfect active indicative of ser?

Adjective

sev?re

  1. vocative masculine singular of sev?rus

References

  • severe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • severe in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • severe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

severe (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

  1. vocative singular of sever

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