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# unhappily

«unhappily» in Mova's school dictionary: **unhappy** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

1) In a sad way, showing you are unhappy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unhappily/#m1)

2) Unluckily; sadly, as a pity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unhappily/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales it tells how a character feels sad or how bad luck came; it is used like «unfortunately»

### examples

- She looked unhappily at the broken toy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unhappily/#x1)
- Unhappily, the boat sank before the storm ended. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unhappily/#x2)
- He spoke unhappily about his lost dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unhappily/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unhappily» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unhappily/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.