hapless
Collocations
4ADJ.
failed, kind, many
VERB + HAPLESS
become, devouring, hole, love, pulls
HAPLESS + NOUN
defence, heroine, outcast, queen, tom's, victims, villagers
PREP.
in, into, on
Definitions
adj
unfortunate.
Very unlucky; ill-fated.
Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts.
Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
miserable, wretched, unhappy, measly, forlorn.
Devoid of talent or skill.
Gideon Defoe scripted from his own series-launching comedic book The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists, about the adventures of a hapless group of pirates known only by names like The Pirate With The Scarf, The Pirate With Gout, and in the case of their leader, The Pirate Captain.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts
WiktionaryMiss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has
WiktionaryMy dear friend, are you to become that hapless kind of outcast, a champion of lost causes?
WiktionaryDragons flew in the sky, raining down fiery death and destruction on the hapless villagers.
Tatoeba · #6088903Doomed to devouring love, the hapless queen / burns as she gazes, with insatiate fire, / charmed by his presents and his youthful mien.
Tatoeba · #6800188The black hole pulls the hapless star into its maw.
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