What's the difference between delighted and unhappy?

Delighted


Definition:

  • (a.) Endowed with delight.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Delight

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Van Persie's knee injury meant that Mata could work in tandem with the delightfully nimble Kagawa, starting for the first time since 22 January.
  • (2) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
  • (3) Speaking about the player, who scored crucial goals for England during qualification for the 2014 World Cup, Hodgson said: “Andros was unlucky to lose his place in the squad when he wasn’t getting a regular game and he’s gone to Newcastle, got a regular game, and done very well there.” Expressing his delight in being selected, Townsend tweeted: “Huge honour to be named in provisional England squad for the euros ... Will give my all over next few weeks to try to make final squad!” Hodgson also declared himself pleased to include Jordan Henderson, who returned to action for Liverpool in Sunday’s 1-1 draw with West Bromwich Albion having been out since early April with damaged knee ligaments.
  • (4) Going forward, I am delighted to take on the roles of both director and ambassador for the club.
  • (5) "I'm delighted we've been able to agree a deal with Sporting Lisbon and with Ricky and we look forward to welcoming him to the squad in July, once all of the paperwork gets sorted out."
  • (6) "Well…" His delightful press secretary, Lena, starts giggling as her boss tries to unknot himself from this contradiction.
  • (7) The other is a flamboyant showman who delights in peroxide mohicans and driving a variety of fast cars – most notably, perhaps, an army camouflage Bentley Continental GT.
  • (8) "I am delighted we have achieved this result," Key said.
  • (9) His institute has also calculated the centre of the continent of Europe to be in Lithuania, much to the delight of the village of Purnuškės.
  • (10) In fact, it was Howard who first introduced a teenage Martin Amis to the delights of reading when she gave him a copy of Pride and Prejudice .
  • (11) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
  • (12) Jane Baxter's stuffed courgette flowers Stuffed courgette flowers Photograph: Rob White You can't get much more summery than courgette flowers – Jane Baxter's take on these light crispy fried delights (use a vegetarian parmesan-style cheese ).
  • (13) He seemed delighted to see everyone, he agreed with everything that was said to him, he was all benignity and good fellowship."
  • (14) And I’m delighted that Tony Hall has signalled that high-quality British drama is a major editorial priority for him, one he plans to invest in.
  • (15) Lord Roberts, a Liberal Democrat peer, told the Observer he was delighted Muazu was back in the UK but horrified that he had been forced to endure the attempted removal.
  • (16) How delightful that the anti-marriage group is known as Blag and opposed by Glad – which has more background : [The] ruling comes with respect to claims brought by six married same-sex couples and one widower from the states of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont who were denied federal tax, social security, pension and family medical leave protections only because they are (or were) married to someone of the same sex.
  • (17) Mr Gates's publishers will have been delighted by the response he provoked.
  • (18) Luzhkov's many enemies, meanwhile, today expressed delight at the dismissal.
  • (19) Last week, I was delighted to meet four of these highly committed, talented recruits, together with their supervising consultant social workers from Newham, east London.
  • (20) The same-sex marriage bill became law, greeted with delight by the gay community and suspicious resentment by many Tories.

Unhappy


Definition:

  • (a.) Not happy or fortunate; unfortunate; unlucky; as, affairs have taken an unhappy turn.
  • (a.) In a degree miserable or wretched; not happy; sad; sorrowful; as, children render their parents unhappy by misconduct.
  • (a.) Marked by infelicity; evil; calamitous; as, an unhappy day.
  • (a.) Mischievous; wanton; wicked.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
  • (2) Unless psychic rehabilitation is undertaken in tandem with physical rehabilitation, a spinal cord-injured patient is likely to become an unhappy social recluse or denizen of a chronic care facility, rather than an independent productive member of his community.
  • (3) Along the way, he fathered a child at 20 and immediately turned his back on her (they are now reunited), had a brief and unhappy marriage to the broadcaster Carol McGiffin and a series of frenetically unsatisfying relationships.
  • (4) I remind him that he had been unhappy with the penalty awarded to Barcelona in the Champions League game at Wembley last season, and he smiles.
  • (5) George Osborne may well end up in the unhappy position of trying to convince the public, in a haunting echo of the 2010 campaign, that he is still the man to bring the nation's finances back into balance by the end of the next parliament.
  • (6) Photograph: Rex If they are still unhappy they can go to the free Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), which resolves disputes between consumers and financial firms, although the PAC raised concerns about the service’s backlog of cases.
  • (7) Three months later the mothers appeared to be interacting normally with their infants, but they expressed feelings of unhappiness that persisted until the infants reached 9 months of age.
  • (8) So we're all very unhappy about it, but what can we do?
  • (9) The church excommunicated him in 1901, unhappy with his novel Resurrection and Tolstoy's espousal of Christian anarchist and pacifist views.
  • (10) He said Abbott was reflecting the “unhappiness we all have with what was a big error”.
  • (11) The distance to the original venue was around 50 miles and the manager, who was unhappy with the scale of travel on last summer’s US tour, vetoed having to make the round trip.
  • (12) I don't think she would have been unhappy for songs to be published."
  • (13) The academic, one of the country’s leading experts on the drug, is particularly unhappy with the British Medical Journal (BMJ), which has run well-publicised articles by two critics of statins that he argues are flawed and misleading.
  • (14) The house flourished but the marriage was bitterly unhappy and ended in divorce.
  • (15) "Unable to get petrol yesterday and missed a full day's work which will be unpaid, very unhappy," said one from Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.
  • (16) Splenectomy could gave a role in producing these unhappy results.
  • (17) He is reported to have expressed ­unhappiness at his own pending deployment and of US troops being responsible for the killing of fellow Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • (18) The results, broadcast by Seven News on Wednesday, showed voters were also deeply unhappy with the performance of the Labor leader, Bill Shorten, and indicated that Turnbull enjoyed a strong lead as preferred prime minister.
  • (19) He says he was unconfident and largely unhappy at school.
  • (20) But the role opened my eyes to certain aspects of online gaming, such as harassment, abuse, threats and even stalking, and in many ways, it is an unhappy experience that I wish I could undo.