Synonyms for hapless


Grammar : Adj
Spell : hap-lis
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhæp lɪs

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Définition 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

Antonyms for hapless

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