Definitions for hapless
ˈhæp lɪshap·less

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretchedadjective

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. haplessadjective

   Very unlucky; ill-fated.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Haplessadjective

   Unhappy; unfortunate; luckless; unlucky.

   Etymology: from hap.

   Hapless Ægeon, whom the fates have mark’d
   To bear th’ extremity of dire mishap! William Shakespeare.

   Here hapless Icarus had found his part,
   Had not the father’s grief restrain’d his art. John Dryden, Æn.

   Did his hapless passion equal mine,
   I would refuse the bliss. Edmund Smith, Phædra and Hippolitus.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hapless

   The Jewish Enquirer (titled Hapless on My5) is a British comedy web series. It premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 28 February 2020 in the UK and Ireland, followed by release in the USA on 30 March 2020. It then launched on Netflix in the UK and Ireland on November 1, 2021.

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1. hapless

   Hapless is an adjective used to describe someone who is unlucky or unfortunate, often seeming to be constantly in situations of difficulty or adversity.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Haplessadjective

   without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid

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Anagrams for hapless »

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How to say hapless in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hapless in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hapless in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of hapless in a Sentence

1. Burgess Owens:

   Im so against anybody portraying that generation that didso much to raise such a great group of kidsto be looked at as hopeless and hapless, they would beput down and disgusted to be looked at as oppressed when we were victors.

2. John Travolta:

   With no explanation for what theMooses condition is and boy, is whatTravoltadoing a choice Durstand his main star have, rather than giving us a character, merely offered up a hapless, carnival figure of laughable madness, alternately impossible and improbable.

3. Burgess Owens:

   We are not a hapless, hopeless race.

4. Kenji Goto:

   He was hapless and didn't know what he was doing. He needed someone with experience to help him.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=hapless
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hapless
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=hapless
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapless
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hapless
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hapless