mishappiness

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ happy +‎ -ness.

Noun

mishappiness (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Unhappiness; wretchedness; misery.

   Synonyms: dejection, melancholy; see also Thesaurus:sadness

   • a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt, Wyatt's Complaint upon Love to Reason, with Love's Answer:

     What wit have words so prest and forcible, That may contain my great mishappiness, And just complaints of his ungentleness?

   • 1974, F. N. McCoy, Robert Baillie and the Second Scots Reformation:

     "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...."