Hapless
['hæplɪs]
Definition
(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' .
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Definition
(a.) Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Luckless, unlucky, unfortunate, unhappy, wretched, miserable, forlorn, ill-starred, ill-fated.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See LUCKLESS]
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Examples
- He was sorry--he was very sorry: for my sake he grieved over the hapless peculiarity. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She is always having stalls at Fancy Fairs for the benefit of these hapless beings. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I told her that I believed she had given me a faithful account of herself, and that we had both been hapless instruments in designing hands. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I'm everyways agreeable, sir, says the hapless Jo. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I heard of the discovery of the American hemisphere, and wept with Safie over the hapless fate of its original inhabitants. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Everybody felt the allusion to her departure, and to her hapless orphan state. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Sublime grandeur of outward objects soothed our hapless hearts, and were in harmony with our desolation. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Tread silently round the hapless couch of the poor prostrate soul. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He remembered his oath, and slaughtered the hapless Knight of Chatillon with his own hand. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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