Synonyms for unhappiness
un·hap·pi·ness

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. unhappiness

   Synonyms:
   misery, wretchedness, distress, woe

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1. sadness, unhappinessnoun

   emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being

   Synonyms:
   lugubriousness, sorrow, gloominess, sadness, sorrowfulness

   Antonyms:
   felicity, happiness

2. unhappinessnoun

   state characterized by emotions ranging from mild discontentment to deep grief

   Synonyms:
   sadness

   Antonyms:
   happiness, felicity

Matched Categories

1. • Emotional State
   • Feeling

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1. unhappinessnoun

   Synonyms:
   wretchedness, misery, distress, affliction, woe

2. unhappinessnoun

   Synonyms:
   misfortune, calamity, disaster

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1. unhappinessnoun

   Synonyms:
   infelicity, misery, distress, sorrow, woe

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1. List of paraphrases for "unhappiness":

   dissatisfaction, discontent, sadness, misfortune, displeasure, misery, woe

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How to use unhappiness in a sentence?

1. Ramana Pemmaraju:

   You have treasured your MIND more than your 'SELF' and that's the primary source of unhappiness!

2. Simon Wessely:

   I am sure that social media plays a role in unhappiness, but it has as many benefits as it does negatives, we need to teach children how to cope with all aspects of social media -- good and bad -- to prepare them for an increasingly digitized world. There is real danger in blaming the medium for the message.

3. Henry Graham Greene:

   He Harris felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness -- the sense that that is where we really belong.

4. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus:

   The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

5. Robertson Davies:

   Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.