unmerry

English

Etymology

From Old English unmyriġe (“unpleasant”), from un- + myriġe (“pleasant”). By surface analysis, un- +‎ merry.

Adjective

unmerry (comparative more unmerry, superlative most unmerry)

1. Not merry, the opposite of merry; sad, gloomy.
   • 1895, William Morris, Child Christopher‎^[1]:

     "Yea, much," she said; "it seems joyous to me: and I shall tell thee that I have mostly dwelt in unmerry houses, though they were of greater cost than this."

   • 1914, William Morris, The Sundering Flood‎^[2]:

     But the Maiden, though she might hope the more to see her friend come back whole and sound, was unmerry at the tidings, she could scarce tell for why; neither did the Carline blame her therefore.

   • 1989 March 24, Lawrence Bommer, “The American”, in Chicago Reader‎^[3]:

     In an impassive 17th-century mansion in the Faubourg Saint-Germain Newman finds his prize possession an unmerry widow named Claire de Cintre.