[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hapless \hap"less\ ha^p"le^s, a.
   without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy;
   as, hapless youth; hapless maid. --dryden.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

hapless
     adj : 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" syn: miserable, misfortunate,
            pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor,
           wretched
see also:
miserable misfortunate pathetic piteous pitiable pitiful 
poor wretched 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

33 moby thesaurus words for "hapless":
   badly off, depressed, dire, donsie, doomful, evil-starred, fatal,
   fortuneless, funest, ill off, ill-fated, ill-starred,
   in adverse circumstances, inauspicious, infelicitous, luckless,
   miserable, ominous, out of luck, planet-struck, sad, short of luck,
   star-crossed, unblessed, underprivileged, unfortunate, unhappy,
   unlucky, unprosperous, unprovidential, untoward, woeful,
   wretched

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