unhappiness

unhappiness
noun
ADJECTIVE
deep, great
general, widespread (esp. BrE)
personal
marital
VERB + UNHAPPINESS
express
cause, lead to

Bottling up your anger can only lead to unhappiness.

PREPOSITION
unhappiness about

He expressed his unhappiness about the arrangements.

unhappiness at

the great unhappiness she felt at having to leave the town

unhappiness with

his deep unhappiness with the situation

PHRASES
a cause of unhappiness

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  • unhappiness — index damper (depressant), dissatisfaction, distress (anguish), pessimism Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • unhappiness — unhappy ► ADJECTIVE (unhappier, unhappiest) 1) not happy. 2) unfortunate. DERIVATIVES unhappily adverb unhappiness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • unhappiness with one's lot — index dissatisfaction Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

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  • unhappiness — noun see unhappy …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • unhappiness — See unhappily. * * * …   Universalium

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  • unhappiness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. sorrow, woe, sadness; see depression 2 , grief 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits: blues, dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, doldrums, dolefulness, down heartedness,… …   English dictionary for students

  • unhappiness — n. miserableness, sadness, dejection …   English contemporary dictionary

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