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Synonyms for hapless
ˈhæp lɪshap·less
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Princeton's WordNet
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, uglyAntonyms:
fortunate
Dictionary of English Synonymes
haplessadjective
Synonyms:
luckless, unlucky, unfortunate, unhappy, wretched, miserable, forlorn, ill-starred, ill-fated
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "hapless":
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#402 | low | |
#746 | short | |
#1711 | poor | |
#2263 | sorry | |
#5071 | sad | |
#5907 | suffering | |
#7689 | ugly | |
#8155 | silly | |
#10208 | inadequate | |
#12604 | ridiculous | |
#12840 | unfortunate | |
#14572 | unhappy | |
#17102 | miserable | |
#18127 | pathetic | |
#20769 | worthless | |
#27379 | vile | |
#30945 | wretched | |
#38945 | unworthy | |
#40996 | pitiful | |
#42423 | distressing | |
#43288 | hapless | |
#47706 | despicable | |
#48820 | slimy | |
#51865 | abject | |
#55032 | deplorable | |
#57224 | paltry | |
#68555 | measly | |
#69348 | scurvy | |
#77165 | woeful | |
#92197 | piteous | |
#95216 | lamentable | |
#115306 | scummy | |
#119822 | pitiable | |
#143060 | execrable |
How to use hapless in a sentence?
He was hapless and didn't know what he was doing. He needed someone with experience to help him.
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.
We are not a hapless, hopeless race.
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.
Translations for hapless
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- قليل الحظArabic
- nešťastnýCzech
- ulykkelige, ulykkeligDanish
- glücklos, unglückseligGerman
- άμοιροςGreek
- desventuradoSpanish
- بی چارهPersian
- kovaonninen, onnettomat, epäonninen, onnetonFinnish
- malheureux, malchanceuxFrench
- neuspeeideilaghManx
- अभागीHindi
- balsorsú, szerencsétlenHungarian
- անբախտ, դժբախտArmenian
- malangIndonesian
- sfortunatoItalian
- אוּמלָלHebrew
- 不運なJapanese
- infelix,Latin
- ongelukkig, onfortuinlijk, ongelukkigeDutch
- uheldigeNorwegian
- nieszczęśliwyPolish
- azarado, infelizPortuguese
- nenorocosRomanian
- неудачливый, незадачливый, невезучийRussian
- olyckligSwedish
- மகிழ்ச்சியற்றTamil
- เคราะห์ร้ายThai
- bahtsızTurkish
- невдалийUkrainian
- اباگیUrdu
- không mayVietnamese
- שלימאַזלדיקYiddish
- 倒霉Chinese
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