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Meaning of hapless

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  hapless
      adj 1: 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: {hapless}, {miserable},
             {misfortunate}, {pathetic}, {piteous}, {pitiable},
             {pitiful}, {poor}, {wretched}]


Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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