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English Dictionary: Unhappily by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Unhappily
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
unhappily
adv
  1. in an unpleasant way; "they were unhappily married" [ant: blithely, gayly, happily, jubilantly, merrily, mirthfully]
  2. in an unfortunate way; "sadly he died before he could see his grandchild"
    Synonym(s): sadly, unhappily
    Antonym(s): happily
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Unhappy \Un*hap"py\, a.
      1. Not happy or fortunate; unfortunate; unlucky; as, affairs
            have taken an unhappy turn.
  
      2. In a degree miserable or wretched; not happy; sad;
            sorrowful; as, children render their parents unhappy by
            misconduct.
  
      3. Marked by infelicity; evil; calamitous; as, an unhappy
            day. [bd]The unhappy morn.[b8] --Milton.
  
      4. Mischievous; wanton; wicked. [Obs.] --Shak. --
            {Un*hap"pi*ly}, adv. -- {Un*hap"pi*ness}, n.
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