undelight

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noun

The condition or feeling of lacking delight; unhappiness or displeasure.

Scrabble 14

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nounundelight (countable and uncountable, plural undelights)

plural undelights

  1. uncountableThe condition or feeling of lacking delight; unhappiness or displeasure.

    Loud rise the sounds of sorrow, day and night, Where friends, clasped close in lingering undelight, Weep at the thought of parting. Matrons, ay,

    1907, Virgil, The Æneid (trans. E. Fairfax Taylor), J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)

    Synonyms: discontent, dissatisfaction, misery, sorrow, blueness, tristesse, mirthlessness, blues

  2. countableSomething unpleasant or displeasing.

    Along with the jollity of the trip from Tsing Hua into Peking are many undelights.

    1931, Esther Frayne Hayes, At Home in China, W. Neale, published 1931, page 82

    Synonyms: hardship, sorrow, affliction, aggrievance, distress, grief, grievance, hardship

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