Antonyms for hapless

Grammar : Adj

Spell : hap-lis

Phonetic Transcription : ˈhæp lɪs

Definition of hapless

Origin : "unfortunate," c.1400, from hap (n.) in the sense "good luck" + -less. Related: Haplessly; haplessness.

adj unfortunate

Example sentences :

But Fortune had not yet exhausted her malice against the hapless Athenians.
Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell

Hapless as his condition was, he might still pray for mercy, and might possibly find it.
Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude

He sprang forward at once towards the hapless boy, dragging the coat with him.
Extract from : « The Fiery Totem » by Argyll Saxby

Poor, hapless Bernardine could have cried aloud as she listened.
Extract from : « Jolly Sally Pendleton » by Laura Jean Libbey

And could love do so little at its most unfortunate and hapless ending?
Extract from : « Aunt Rachel » by David Christie Murray

But it had no effect on the chaperonage now imposed by her upon her hapless daughter.
Extract from : « The Genius » by Margaret Horton Potter

Yet that was what the gods eventually decreed for this hapless twain.
Extract from : « The Genius » by Margaret Horton Potter

They saw that their case was hapless, yet on they came across the shelterless plain.
Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston

Certainly they are sons of the hapless who meet my strength.
Extract from : « The Iliad of Homer (1873) » by Homer

Now go, and kindle the fire beneath your hapless countrymen.'
Extract from : « The Aeneid of Virgil » by Virgil

Synonyms for hapless

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