Hapless

a.

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Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid.

Adj.

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hapless - 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: misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, poor, miserable, pitiful, wretched

badly off, depressed, dire, donsie, doomful, evil-starred, fatal, fortuneless, funest, ill off, ill-starred, in adverse circumstances, inauspicious, infelicitous, miserable, ominous, out of luck, planet-struck, sad, short of luck, star-crossed, unblessed, underprivileged, unhappy, unlucky, unprosperous, unprovidential, untoward, woeful, wretched