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Hapless (Adjective)

Meaning

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".

Classification

All adjective clusters.

Examples

  • The tourists, lost in the dense forest, were a hapless bunch, wandering around for hours with no phone signal.
  • She was a hapless child, born into a family of poverty and neglect, with little chance of a better life.
  • The old man was a hapless soul, struggling to make ends meet on his meager pension, with no one to turn to for help.
  • The movie portrayed the refugees as hapless victims of war, forced to flee their homes and live in squalid camps.
  • The singer's off-key warbling made her sound like a hapless amateur, more likely to shatter glass than entertain a crowd.

Synonyms

  • Wretched
  • Pitiable
  • Miserable
  • Misfortunate
  • Poor
  • Pitiful
  • Pathetic
  • Piteous
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