Synonyms for hapless
ˈhæp lɪshap·less

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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"

   Synonyms:
   ridiculous, paltry, deplorable, scummy, woeful, slimy, execrable, suffering, scurvy, vile, low-down, despicable, inadequate, low, miserable, worthless, sad, piteous, lamentable, misfortunate, pitiable, distressing, measly, poor, pathetic, short, wretched, silly, sorry, pitiful, abject, unworthy, ugly

   Antonyms:
   fortunate

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1. haplessadjective

   Synonyms:
   luckless, unlucky, unfortunate, unhappy, wretched, miserable, forlorn, ill-starred, ill-fated

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1. List of paraphrases for "hapless":

   unfortunate, unhappy

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1. Kenji Goto:

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

2. Burgess Owens:

   We are not a hapless, hopeless race.

3. 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.

4. 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.