All hapless synonyms
hap·less
H h adj hapless
- unfortunate — suffering from bad luck: an unfortunate person.
- unlucky — (of a person) not lucky; lacking good fortune; ill-fated.
- woeful — full of woe; wretched; unhappy: a woeful situation.
- cursed — If you are cursed with something, you are very unlucky in having it.
- ill-fated — destined, as though by fate, to an unhappy or unfortunate end: an ill-fated voyage.
- loser — a person, team, nation, etc., that loses: The visiting team was the loser in the series.
- luckless — having no luck; unfortunate; hapless; ill-fated; turning out or ending disastrously: a luckless venture that ruined many of the investors.
- miserable — wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
- sad sack — a pathetically inept person, especially a soldier, who continually blunders in spite of good intentions.
- star-crossed — thwarted or opposed by the stars; ill-fated: star-crossed lovers.
- unhappy — sad; miserable; wretched: Why is she so unhappy?
- untoward — unfavorable or unfortunate: Untoward circumstances forced him into bankruptcy.
- wretched — very unfortunate in condition or circumstances; miserable; pitiable.
- infelicitous — inapt, inappropriate, or awkward; malapropos: an infelicitous remark.
- hexed — to bewitch; practice witchcraft on: He was accused of hexing his neighbors' cows because they suddenly stopped giving milk.
- ill-starred — doomed to misfortune or disaster; ill-fated; unlucky: an ill-starred enterprise.
- jonah — a Minor Prophet who, for his impiety, was thrown overboard from his ship and swallowed by a large fish, remaining in its belly for three days before being cast up onto the shore unharmed.
- snakebit — bitten by a snake.
adjective hapless
- doomed — fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.