Hapless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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