infelicity
n . 不幸,不吉,不适当
不幸,不吉,不适当
infelicity n 1 :
inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (
especially manner or style of expression ) [
ant : {
felicitousness },
{
felicity }]
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 appropriateness . --
I .
Watts .
[
1913 Webster ]
Whatever is the ignorance and infelicity of the present state ,
we were made wise and happy .
--
Glanvill .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
That (
as an act ,
word ,
expression ,
etc .)
which is infelicitous ;
as ,
infelicities of speech .
[
1913 Webster ]
143 Moby Thesaurus words for "
infelicity ":
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
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