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All unhappily synonyms

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adv unhappily

  • dismally — causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.
  • disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
  • gravely — Samuel L(ee), Jr. 1922–2004, U.S. naval officer: first black admiral.
  • grievously — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
  • disastrously — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
  • frightfully — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
  • drastically — acting with force or violence; violent.
  • horribly — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
  • lamentably — that is to be lamented; regrettable; unfortunate: a lamentable decision.

adverb unhappily

  • wistfully — characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning.
  • cheerlessly — In a cheerless manner.
  • forlornly — desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.
  • glumly — sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected.
  • discouragingly — In a discouraging manner.
  • despondently — feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom: despondent about failing health.
  • disappointedly — depressed or discouraged by the failure of one's hopes or expectations: a disappointed suitor.
  • woefully — affected with, characterized by, or indicating woe: woeful melodies.
  • dolefully — sorrowful; mournful; melancholy: a doleful look on her face.
  • miserably — wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
  • morosely — gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
  • joylessly — In a joyless manner.
  • alas — You use alas to say that you think that the facts you are talking about are sad or unfortunate.
  • disconsolately — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
  • dejectedly — depressed in spirits; disheartened; low-spirited: The dejected expression on the face of the loser spoiled my victory.
  • abjectly — utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched: abject poverty.
  • involuntarily — not voluntary; independent of one's will; not by one's own choice: an involuntary listener; involuntary servitude.
  • gloomily — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
  • discontentedly — not content or satisfied; dissatisfied; restlessly unhappy: For all their wealth, or perhaps because of it, they were discontented.
  • desolately — barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape.
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