UNHAPPY


Meaning of UNHAPPY in English

adj.

VERBS

▪ be , feel , look , seem , sound

▪ become , grow

She grew more ~ as the years went by.

▪ remain

▪ make sb

It makes me very ~ to see you so miserable.

ADVERB

▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.

▪ decidedly , deeply , desperately , distinctly , most ( esp. BrE ), really , terribly

She is deeply ~.

He described it as ‘a most ~ and distressing case’.

▪ increasingly

▪ a little , slightly , etc.

▪ clearly , obviously

▪ equally

He was equally ~ with the alternative.

PREPOSITION

▪ about

He sounded a little ~ about the extra work he had to do.

▪ at

She was very ~ at the idea of staying in Sydney.

▪ with

They were terribly ~ with the arrangements.

Unhappy is used with these nouns: ↑ affair , ↑ chapter , ↑ childhood , ↑ customer , ↑ ending , ↑ fate , ↑ life , ↑ marriage , ↑ memory , ↑ situation , ↑ time

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .