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.