hapless
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7.2
- adjective
- /ˈhæpləs/
:
desafortunado
- She felt sorry for her hapless neighbor, who always seemed to face bad luck with his car breaking down.
- hapless victim
- hapless father
- hapless woman
There are ROM com movies where the good guy that's kind of the hapless romantic that's chasing the girl.
- There are ROM com movies where the good guy that's kind of the hapless romantic that's chasing the girl.
- But Extras was really still about some hapless people.
- We have morphed this fairly hapless but good-natured guy who is hired as death's apprentice.
- You know, I was called to poor, unfortunate, hapless drug addicts on on the smack.
- And he and George HW Bush was kind of hapless.
Examples
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The hapless traveler lost his way in the heavy rain and had to spend the night at a stranger's home.
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Last month, there were two hapless chipmunks sleeping in the engine block.
Fiction book (2002) -
I think that... is why I'm just this... hapless romantic.
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The doors slide shut behind him, and the hapless cops curse under their breath as he rolls off.
Fiction book (1992) -
Do you picture some poor, hapless soul throwing up her hands with a sigh of resigned frustration?
Academic text (2011) -
We have morphed this fairly hapless but good-natured guy who is hired as death's apprentice.
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Yet in their narratives, humans are either hapless victims or depersonalized villains.
Academic text (2016) -
On the table near Stephen's right hand is a hapless garter snake imprisoned in a glass jar.
Fiction book (1990) -
Alabama's Blount and St. Clair Counties are hapless proof that it can become more than a one-shot deal.
Academic text (1996) -
When last seen, our hapless heroes were about to be crunched into oblivion by the perverted Wang's chomping jaws.
Synonyms
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1.0
Needing pity because they are hurt, sad, or unlucky
91
1.0
Having bad luck that causes problems
33
4.2
Causes people to feel sorry
30
3.2
Making people feel sorry and want to help because of suffering or weakness
19
6.1
Likely to have very bad luck and end badly
16
5.7
Extremely unhappy and suffering a lot
7
6.7
Having bad luck, often with money
7
6.1
Making people feel sorry for someone or something
6
6.7
Very bad and upsetting because it should not have happened
3
7.9
Making people feel sorry because someone is suffering
2
5.3
A person who has many bad things happen to them
1
7.1
Unlucky and in need of help
Antonyms
How Unlucky
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hapless starts with hap, an old word for 'luck' or 'chance' that you can see in words like happen and happy. It ends with -less, which means 'without'. So someone hapless is literally 'without luck' — unlucky or unfortunate.