Word Meanings - HAPLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HAPLESS)

• Calamitous
• Disastrous
• illfated
• fatal
• unlucky
• hapless
• unfortunate
• inauspicious
• troublous
• illstarred
• ill-omened
• Desperate
• Wild
• daring
• audacious
• determined
• reckless
• abandoned
• rash
• furious
• frantic
• despairing
• regardless
• mad
• desponding
• inextricable
• irremediable
• Forlorn
• Abandoned
• deserted
• forsaken
• solitary
• destitute
• desolate
• luckless
• helpless
• disconsolate
• lone
• woe-begone
• lonesome
• wretched

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HAPLESS)

• People
• colonize
• plant
• develop
• fertilize
• cultivate
• enrich
• enliven

Related words: (words related to HAPLESS)

• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• DESOLATE
  1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an
• FATALNESS
  , . Quality of being fatal. Johnson.
• HAPLESS
  Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid. Dryden.
• DARREIN
  Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.
• FATALISTIC
  Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• DARKNESS
  1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or
• DARING
  Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• DESPAIRING
  Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless. -- De*spair"ing*ly, adv. -- De*spair"ing*ness, n.
• FATALITY
  1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South. 2. The state of being fatal;
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• PLANTIGRADE
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• FORLORNLY
  In a forlorn manner. Pollok.
• DARE
  To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture. I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Shak. Why then did not the ministers use their new law Bacause they
• DARKENING
  Twilight; gloaming. Wright.
• FORLORNNESS
  State of being forlorn. Boyle.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• PANDARISM
  See SWIFT
• PANDARIZE
  To pander.
• CEDARN
  Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• GENDARMERY
  The body of gendarmes.
• REDARGUE
  To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has,