Synonyms for unhappiness
All synonyms
Noun
1. Sadness
sadness, sorrow, misery, dejection, woe, wretchedness, distress, displeasure, depression, grief, desolation, misfortune, melancholy, gloom, remorse, ill-being, blues, dolor US, dolour UK, infelicity, tristfulness, dolefulness, sorrowfulness
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Definitions
- n. 1
The feeling of not being happy.
Forms
- Plural
- unhappinesses → sadnesses, sorrows, miseries, dejections…
Example sentences
- misery Tom blamed all his misery on planned obsolescence.
- sadness There was also an irrefutable sadness in his eyes.
- sorrow To my sorrow, my father cannot attend the meeting.
By length
- 3 letters
- woe1
- 5 letters
- blues1, grief1, gloom1, dolor
- 6 letters
- misery3, sorrow2, dolour
- 7 letters
- sadness2, remorse2
- 8 letters
- distress2
- 9 letters
- dejection
- 10 letters
- depression3, misfortune3, melancholy4, desolation4, infelicity
- 11 letters
- displeasure3, dolefulness
- 12 letters
- wretchedness, tristfulness
- 13 letters
- sorrowfulness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (misery3 = 3 syllables).