English-Thai Dictionary
infelicity
N ความ ไม่ เป็นสุข ความ ไม่เหมาะสม ความ ไม่สมควร การกระทำ ไม่เหมาะสม inappropriateness bungling sorrow kwam-mai-pen-suk
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
INFELICITY
n.[L. infelicitas. See Felicity. ] Unhappiness; misfortune.
1. Unfortunate state; unfaborableness; as the infelicity of the times, or of the occasion.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
INFELICITY
In `fe *lic "i *ty, n.; pl. Infelicities. Etym: [L. infelicitas: cf. F.infélicité. See In- not, and Felicity. ]
1. The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; want of suitableness or appropriateness. I. Watts. Whatever is the ignorance and infelicity of the present state, we were made wise and happy. Glanvill.
2. That (as an act, word, expression, etc. ) which is infelicitous; as, infelicities of speech.
New American Oxford Dictionary
infelicity
in fe lic i ty |ˌinfəˈlisitē ˌɪnfəˈlɪsədi | ▶noun ( pl. infelicities ) a thing that is inappropriate, esp. a remark or expression: she winced at their infelicities and at the clumsy way they talked. • archaic unhappiness; misfortune. ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘unhappiness ’): from Latin infelicitas, from infelix, infelic- ‘unhappy, ’ from in- ‘not ’ + felix ‘happy. ’
Oxford Dictionary
infelicity
in |feli ¦city |ɪnfɪˈlɪsɪti | ▶noun ( pl. infelicities ) 1 a thing that is inappropriate, especially a remark or expression: she winced at their infelicities and at the clumsy way they talked. 2 [ mass noun ] archaic unhappiness; misfortune. ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘unhappiness ’): from Latin infelicitas, from infelix, infelic- ‘unhappy ’, from in- ‘not ’ + felix ‘happy ’.
Oxford Thesaurus
infelicity
infelicity noun I bear full responsibility for any infelicities in the text: mistake, error, blunder, slip, lapse, solecism, misusage, impropriety.
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