Unhappyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ʌnˈhæpi/
• 韻: -æpi
• ハイフネーション: un‧hap‧py

形容詞

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

1. Not happy; sad.

   Synonyms: sad, lamentable; see also Thesaurus:sad

   Antonyms: delighted, exuberant, glad, happy, joyous, joyful

   I am unhappy.

   • 1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera:

     A moment of time may make us unhappy forever.

2. Not satisfied; unsatisfied.

   Synonyms: dissatisfied, uncontented

   An unhappy customer is unlikely to return to your shop.

3. (chiefly dated) Not lucky; unlucky.

   Synonyms: hapless, unpropitious; see also Thesaurus:unlucky

   The doomed lovers must have been born under an unhappy star.

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 56:

     The pointed shaft of the cart had entered the breast of the unhappy Prince like a sword, and from the wound his life's blood was spouting in a stream, and falling with a hiss into the road.

4. (chiefly dated) Not suitable; unsuitable.

   Synonyms: unfit, inappropriate; see also Thesaurus:unsuitable

   • 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:

     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?

派生語

名詞

unhappy (plural unhappies)

1. A person who is not happy.

   Synonyms: sadcase, sad panda, sad sack

   • 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 […]

動詞

unhappy (third-person singular simple present unhappies, present participle unhappying, simple past and past participle unhappied)

1. To make or become unhappy; to sadden.

   Synonyms: deject, depress; see also Thesaurus:be sad, Thesaurus:sadden

   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act 3, scene 1]:

     A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments,
     By you unhappied and disfigured clean

   • 1625, Sir John Eliot, Letter to the duke of Buckingham:

     In the greate desire I have unto your grace's service, nothing has more unhappied me than the wante of opportunitie in which I might expresse the character of my harte that onlie takes of your impressions.

   • 1637, Samuel Page, The Broken Heart, page 29:

     They unhappied their estates by sinning against God, and of glorious Angels became unclean devils: there is not part of the work of Gods hands so eternally cast away, reserved in chains of darknesse for the judgement of the last day.

   • 1788, Alexander Falconbridge, The African Slave Trade:

     Nor do these unhappying beings, after they become the property of Europeans (from whom as a more civilized people, more humanity might naturally be expected), find their situation in the least amended.

   • 2011, Jeanne Comings Majdalany, “In Foreign Lands — A Teacher and A Learner”, in Anne Peet Carrington and Børre Ludvigsen, editor, Fill the bathtub!, page 65:

     Most unhappying! I had to get up, have a nice hot bath and then go out into the cold rain to Ted's for breakfast.