Translation
unhappy, miserable; unfortunate, unlucky
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Examples
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The unhappy boy cried.
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She was unhappy in that house.
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That was an unlucky day for us.
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I do not want to make you unhappy.
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Unhappy people rarely laugh.
- reverses cleanly, and the result splits the way the English pair unhappy and unfortunate does: of a person it means miserable, of an event it means ill-starred. as a noun is a misfortune or a disaster, which is a heavier word than the adjective suggests. Beware writing nefeliĉa: - only negates, so it would mean not particularly happy, whereas - gives you the full opposite pole.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 4, lesson 4: malfeliĉa, internacia, ekster and 4 more words.