Meanings
- obsoleteuncountableUnhappiness; wretchedness; misery.
What wit have words so prest and forcible, That may contain my great mishappiness, And just complaints of his ungentleness?
a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt, Wyatt's Complaint upon Love to Reason, with Love's Answer1 more example
"My heart pities the man," Baillie wrote at this point in his narrative; "beside other evils, the mishappiness of the affair, which could not be by any hand so compassed as to give content to all...."
1974, F. N. McCoy, Robert Baillie and the Second Scots ReformationSynonyms: dejection, melancholy, blueness, tristesse, mirthlessness, blues, crestfallenness, dejection
Synonyms & antonyms
nounUnhappiness; wretchedness; misery.
Origin
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