infelicity

infelicity
Synonyms and related words:
Gothicism, abnormality, aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, anomaly, antiphrasis, bad taste, bale, barbarism, barbarousness, bitterness, bleeding heart, bombasticness, broken heart, cacology, cacophony, cheerlessness, clumsiness, coarseness, corruption, crudeness, crushing, cumbrousness, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, discontent, displeasure, dysphemism, extremity, futility, gracelessness, grief, grimness, grossness, harshness, heartache, heaviness, heavy heart, humorlessness, ill-balanced sentences, impoliticalness, impoliticness, impropriety, impurity, inadmissibility, inadvisability, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, inauspiciousness, inconcinnity, incongruity, inconvenience, inconveniency, incorrectness, indecorousness, inelegance, inelegancy, ineptitude, inexpedience, inexpediency, infestivity, inopportuneness, inopportunity, intempestivity, interruption, intrusion, irrelevance, irrelevancy, joylessness, lack of finish, lack of polish, lateness, leadenness, maladjustment, malapropism, melancholia, melancholy, mesalliance, mirthlessness, misalliance, misconstruction, misery, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, missaying, misusage, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, prematurity, prostration, roughness, rudeness, sadness, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, slipshod construction, solecism, stiltedness, suicidal despair, tastelessness, turgidity, uncheerfulness, uncongeniality, uncouthness, undesirability, uneuphoniousness, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, ungracefulness, ungrammaticism, unhappiness, unjoyfulness, unmeetness, unmirthfulness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unpropitiousness, unrefinement, unripeness, unseasonableness, unseemliness, unsuitability, untimeliness, unwieldiness, unwiseness, uselessness, vulgarism, vulgarity, woe, worthlessness, wretchedness, wrongness

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • Infelicity — In fe*lic i*ty, n.; pl. {Infelicities}. [L. infelicitas: cf. F. inf[ e]licit[ e]. See {In } not, and {Felicity}.] [1913 Webster] 1. The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; lack of suitableness or …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • infelicity — index distress (anguish), inexpedience, misfortune Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • infelicity — (n.) late 14c., from L. infelicitas ill luck, misfortune, from infelix (gen. infelicis) unfruitful, barren; unfortunate, unhappy, causing misfortune, unlucky, from in not, opposite of (see IN (Cf. in ) (1)) + felix (see FELICITY (Cf. felicity)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • infelicity — [in΄fə lis′ə tē] n. [L infelicitas < infelix, unfortunate: see IN 2 & FELICITY] 1. the quality or condition of being infelicitous 2. pl. infelicities something infelicitous; unsuitable or inapt remark, action, etc …   English World dictionary

  • infelicity — noun (plural ties) Etymology: Middle English infelicite unhappiness, from Latin infelicitas, from infelic , infelix unhappy, from in + felic , felix fruitful more at feminine Date: 1617 1. the quality or state of being infelicitous 2. something… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • infelicity — /in feuh lis i tee/, n., pl. infelicities for 3, 5. 1. the quality or state of being unhappy; unhappiness. 2. misfortune; bad luck. 3. an unfortunate circumstance; misfortune. 4. inaptness, inappropriateness, or awkwardness, as of action or… …   Universalium

  • infelicity — noun a) The condition of being infelicitous b) Something that is infelicitous or inappropriate …   Wiktionary

  • infelicity — in·fe lic·i·ty || ‚ɪnfɪ lɪsÉ™tɪ n. unhappiness; misfortune; something that is out of place; lack of suitability, inappropriateness …   English contemporary dictionary

  • infelicity — noun (plural infelicities) 1》 an act or thing that is inapt or inappropriate, especially a remark or expression. 2》 archaic unhappiness; misfortune …   English new terms dictionary

  • infelicity — n. 1. Unhappiness, wretchedness, misery, misfortune, calamity, ill luck. 2. Unfavorableness, unfortunate state. 3. Inappropriateness, unsuitableness, unfitness, awkwardness, bad taste …   New dictionary of synonyms

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