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hapless

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hap·less  (hpls)
adj.
Luckless; unfortunate. See Synonyms at unfortunate.
hapless·ly adv.
hapless·ness n.
hapless [ˈhæplɪs]
adj
unfortunate; wretched
haplessly  adv
haplessness  n
hapless, happiness - Hapless means one is lacking hap, "good fortune, luck"; the words happy and happiness also have the root "hap."
See also related terms for luck.
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Adj.1.hapless - deserving or inciting pityhapless - 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"
misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, poor, miserable, pitiable, pitiful, wretched
unfortunate - not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned"
hapless
adjective unlucky, unfortunate, cursed, unhappy, miserable, jinxed, luckless, wretched, ill-starred, ill-fated the hapless victim struggled helplessly
Translations
hapless [ˈhæplɪs] ADJ → desventurado
hapless [ˈhæpləs] adj → malheureux/euse
hapless
adj → glücklos; yet another misfortune in the life of this hapless man → noch ein Unglück im Leben dieses vom Pech verfolgten Menschen
hapless [ˈhæplɪs] (liter) adj (wretched) → disgraziato/a; (unfortunate) → sventurato/a
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He was followed to the grave by a vast multitude of mourners, who "gave the hapless man the funeral of a king.
Crime And Punishment by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
A vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-color, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas, as if blindly to clutch at any hapless object within reach.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
There was a hapless company of players in the town from time to time, and they came to us for their printing.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
 
 
 
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