Hapless \Hap"less\ (h[a^]p"l[e^]s), a.
Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy;
as, hapless youth; hapless maid. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hapless
adj : deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable
victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as
extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals
for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful
fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted
limbs"; "a wretched life" [syn: miserable, misfortunate,
pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor,
wretched]
WordNet (r) 2.0
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "hapless":
badly off, depressed, dire, donsie, doomful, evil-starred, fatal,
fortuneless, funest, ill off, ill-fated, ill-starred,
in adverse circumstances, inauspicious, infelicitous, luckless,
miserable, ominous, out of luck, planet-struck, sad, short of luck,
star-crossed, unblessed, underprivileged, unfortunate, unhappy,
unlucky, unprosperous, unprovidential, untoward, woeful,
wretched
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched
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