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Synonyms for unhappiness
un·hap·pi·ness

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. unhappiness

    Synonyms:
    misery, wretchedness, distress, woe

Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 1 vote

  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

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. unhappinessnoun

    Synonyms:
    wretchedness, misery, distress, affliction, woe

  2. unhappinessnoun

    Synonyms:
    misfortune, calamity, disaster

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. unhappinessnoun

    Synonyms:
    infelicity, misery, distress, sorrow, woe

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "unhappiness":

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

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#12669distress
#14621sorrow
#15487misery
#18051sadness
#25704woe
#27687dissatisfaction
#31190misfortune
#32460discontent
#48141displeasure
#48275unhappiness
#114040wretchedness
#330484gloominess

How to use unhappiness in a sentence?

  1. Seneca:

    There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

  2. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky:

    Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

  3. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

    You will never can find happiness if you're the reason for someone's unhappiness.

  4. Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo:

    There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

  5. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand:

    Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.


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