hapless

  • 1Hapless — 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

  • 2hapless — index ominous Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 3hapless — (adj.) unfortunate, c.1400, from HAP (Cf. hap) (n.) in the sense good luck + LESS (Cf. less). Related: Haplessly; haplessness …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 4hapless — *unlucky, disastrous, ill starred, ill fated, unfortunate, calamitous, luckless Analogous words: unhappy, infelicitous (see UNFIT): *miserable, wretched …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 5hapless — [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

  • 6hapless — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ unlucky; unfortunate. DERIVATIVES haplessly adverb …

    English terms dictionary

  • 7hapless — [hap′lis] adj. [ HAP1 + LESS] unfortunate; unlucky; luckless haplessly adv. haplessness n …

    English World dictionary

  • 8hapless — [[t]hæ̱pləs[/t]] ADJ: ADJ n A hapless person is unlucky. [FORMAL] ...his hapless victim …

    English dictionary

  • 9hapless — adjective Very unlucky; ill fated. We saw the ruins of this hapless city from the height of the tower of San Marco …

    Wiktionary

  • 10hapless — adj. Hapless is used with these nouns: ↑victim …

    Collocations dictionary

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