Synonyms for infelicity
Most common
depression misery unhappiness wretchedness grief sadness misfortune woe
All synonyms
Noun
misery, unhappiness, wretchedness, depression, grief, sadness, melancholy, misfortune, woe, melancholia, unfavorableness US, unfavourableness UK, dolor US, dolour UK, sorrow, desolation, despondency, down-heartedness, dejection, sorrowfulness
Definitions
- n. 1
The condition of being infelicitous.
Forms
- Plural
- infelicities → miseries, unhappinesses, wretchednesses, depressions…
Example sentences
- depression The report states that there will be a depression.
- misery Tom blamed all his misery on planned obsolescence.
- unhappiness This created a lot of unhappiness in Yanni's life.
- wretchedness War is accompanied by wretchedness and sorrow.
- grief There are five stages of grief. Stage one: denial.
- sadness There was also an irrefutable sadness in his eyes.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| infelicity | rising | |
| depression | rising | |
| misery | rising | |
| unhappiness | rising | |
| wretchedness | steady | |
| grief | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- woe1
- 5 letters
- grief1, dolor
- 6 letters
- misery3, sorrow2, dolour
- 7 letters
- sadness2
- 9 letters
- dejection
- 10 letters
- depression3, melancholy4, misfortune3, desolation4
- 11 letters
- unhappiness4, melancholia, despondency4
- 12 letters
- wretchedness
- 13 letters
- sorrowfulness
- 15 letters
- unfavorableness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (misery3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- infélicité
- Español
- infelicidad