mishappiness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mis- +‎ happy +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

mishappiness (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Unhappiness; wretchedness; misery.
    • 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...."
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