'Hapless' definitions:
Definition of 'hapless'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched]
Definition of 'Hapless'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'hapless'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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