- hapless
- [ˈhæpləs]adja hapless person is someone that you feel sorry for because bad things have happened to them
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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
hapless — index ominous Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
hapless — (adj.) unfortunate, c.1400, from HAP (Cf. hap) (n.) in the sense good luck + LESS (Cf. less). Related: Haplessly; haplessness … Etymology dictionary
hapless — *unlucky, disastrous, ill starred, ill fated, unfortunate, calamitous, luckless Analogous words: unhappy, infelicitous (see UNFIT): *miserable, wretched … New Dictionary of Synonyms
hapless — [adj] unfortunate behind the eightball*, cursed, hexed, ill fated, ill starred, infelicitous, jinxed, jonah*, loser, luckless, miserable, poor fish*, sad sack*, snakebit*, star crossed*, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, voodooed*, woeful, wretched;… … New thesaurus
hapless — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ unlucky; unfortunate. DERIVATIVES haplessly adverb … English terms dictionary
hapless — [hap′lis] adj. [ HAP1 + LESS] unfortunate; unlucky; luckless haplessly adv. haplessness n … English World dictionary
hapless — [[t]hæ̱pləs[/t]] ADJ: ADJ n A hapless person is unlucky. [FORMAL] ...his hapless victim … English dictionary
hapless — adjective Very unlucky; ill fated. We saw the ruins of this hapless city from the height of the tower of San Marco … Wiktionary
hapless — adj. Hapless is used with these nouns: ↑victim … Collocations dictionary
hapless — hap|less [ˈhæpləs] adj [only before noun] [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: hap ( HAPPY)] literary unlucky ▪ The hapless passengers were stranded at the airport for three days … Dictionary of contemporary English
