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hapless - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'hapless' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Hapless [ a.]
- Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid.

Meaning of 'hapless' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . hapless [ s]
Meaning (1):
- deserving or inciting pity
Example in sentence:
  • a hapless victim;
  • a pitiful fate;
  • a wretched life;
  • his poor distorted limbs;
  • miserable victims of war;
  • Oh, you poor thing;
  • piteous appeals for help;
  • pitiable homeless children;
  • the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic

Nearby Words:

hap hap'penny haphazard haplessly haplomi haplostemonous haply happed happen happened

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