See hapless on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], “chapter 8”, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:",
"text": "Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts.",
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"ref": "1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:",
"text": "Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.",
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"ref": "1914, John Galsworthy, The Mob, act 1:",
"text": "My dear friend, are you to become that hapless kind of outcast, a champion of lost causes?",
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"ref": "2008 December 31, Harriet Barovick, “Detroit The Lost Season”, in Time:",
"text": "The hapless squad, which was outscored 517-268 in 2008, became the first in league history to go 0-16.",
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"etymology_text": "From about 1400, from hap (“luck”) + -less.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more hapless",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most hapless",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
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"name": "en-adj"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "happy"
},
{
"word": "happen"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"unfortunate."
],
"links": [
[
"unfortunate",
"unfortunate"
]
],
"qualifier": "Especially of a person",
"raw_glosses": [
"(Especially of a person) unfortunate."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"ref": "1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], “chapter 8”, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:",
"text": "Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:",
"text": "Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1914, John Galsworthy, The Mob, act 1:",
"text": "My dear friend, are you to become that hapless kind of outcast, a champion of lost causes?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008 December 31, Harriet Barovick, “Detroit The Lost Season”, in Time:",
"text": "The hapless squad, which was outscored 517-268 in 2008, became the first in league history to go 0-16.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Very unlucky; ill-fated."
],
"links": [
[
"unlucky",
"unlucky"
],
[
"ill-fated",
"ill-fated"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"miserable, wretched, unhappy, measly, forlorn."
],
"links": [
[
"miserable",
"miserable"
],
[
"wretched",
"wretched"
],
[
"unhappy",
"unhappy"
],
[
"measly",
"measly"
],
[
"forlorn",
"forlorn"
]
],
"qualifier": "Very",
"raw_glosses": [
"(Very) miserable, wretched, unhappy, measly, forlorn."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in The Onion AV Club:",
"text": "Gideon Defoe scripted from his own series-launching comedic book The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists, about the adventures of a hapless group of pirates known only by names like The Pirate With The Scarf, The Pirate With Gout, and in the case of their leader, The Pirate Captain.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Devoid of talent or skill."
],
"links": [
[
"talent",
"talent"
],
[
"skill",
"skill"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhæplɪs/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhæpləs/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "(US) -æpləs"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "fatkeq"
},
{
"code": "am",
"lang": "Amharic",
"roman": "ʾäbarräwal",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "አባርረዋል"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "qalīl al-ḥaẓẓ",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "قَلِيل الحَظّ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "džbaxt",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "դժբախտ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "anbaxt",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "անբախտ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "jaxord",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "ձախորդ"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "ürəyisınıq"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "baliteke zoritxarreko"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zlopolučen",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "злополучен"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "desventurat"
},
{
"code": "ceb",
"lang": "Cebuano",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "makalolooy"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "nešťastný"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "pronásledovaný smůlou"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "ulykkelig"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "ongelukkig"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "onfortuinlijk"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "onneton"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "kovaonninen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "epäonninen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "malheureux"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "infortuné"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "malchanceux"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "cativo"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "unglückselig"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ámoiros",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "άμοιρος"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "balsorsú"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "szerencsétlen"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "malang"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sfortunato"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "miseros"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nésreḱen",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "не́среќен"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "neuspeeideilagh"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "taitaiā"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "wairuatoa"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "uğursuz",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "اوغورسز"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "bahtsız",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "بختسز"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "kutsuz",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "قوتسز"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "onjlekjlich"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "azarado"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nevezúčij",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "невезу́чий"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "neudáčlivyj",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "неуда́чливый"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "nesretan"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "infeliz"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "infortunado"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "desgraciado"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "olycklig"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "bahtsız"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "şanssız"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "uğursuz"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "shlimazldik",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "שלימאַזלדיק"
},
{
"code": "yo",
"lang": "Yoruba",
"sense": "very unlucky; ill-fated",
"word": "apọn"
}
],
"word": "hapless"
}
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