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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HAP'LESS, a. Luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as hapless youth; hapless maid.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century having no luck ; unfortunate • haplessly adverb • haplessness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. unlucky. Derivatives: haplessly adv. haplessness n. Etymology: HAP + -LESS

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hapless Hap"less, a. Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid. --Dryden.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A hapless person is unlucky. (FORMAL) ...his hapless victim. ADJ: ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Luckless, unlucky, unfortunate, unhappy, wretched, miserable, ill-starred, ill-fated.

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