Hapless

Adjective

 * 1) Very unlucky; ill-fated.
 * 2) * 1826, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Last Man, ch. 9:
 * We saw the ruins of this hapless city from the height of the tower of San Marco.
 * 1) * 1914, John Galsworthy, The Mob, act 1:
 * My dear friend, are you to become that hapless kind of outcast, a champion of lost causes?
 * 1) * 2008, Harriet Barovick, "Detroit The Lost Season," Time, 31 Dec.:
 * The hapless squad, which was outscored 517-268 in 2008, became the first in league history to go 0-16.

Synonyms for Hapless
unfortunate, miserable, ill-fated, luckless, unlucky, unhappy.

Antonyms for Hapless
fortunate, lucky, successful, fortuitous, favored, happy, prosperous, flourishing, well-off.

Derived terms

 * haplessly
 * haplessness

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

Translations

 * Finnish:, ,
 * German:


 * Hungarian: balsorsú

Anagrams

 * plashes