Definition for UN-HAP'PI-NESS

UN-HAP'PI-NESS, n.

  1. Misfortune; ill luck. Burnet.
  2. Infelicity; misery. It is our great unhappiness, when any calamities fall upon us, that we are uneasy and dissatisfied. Wake. [But it usually expresses less than misery or wretchedness.]
  3. Mischievous prank. [Not in use.] Shak.

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