Dragons flew in the sky, raining down fiery death and destruction on the hapless villagers.
Source: tatoeba (6088903)
Hapless
//ˈhæplɪs//
Synonyms for "hapless" (51 found)
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Related words (25)
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2 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
3 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
50 translations across 33 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- fatkeq adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Amharic
1 entries- አባርረዋል adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Arabic
1 entries- قَلِيل الحَظّ adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Armenian
3 entries- անբախտ adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
- դժբախտ adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
- ձախորդ adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- ürəyisınıq adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Basque
1 entries- baliteke zoritxarreko adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Bulgarian
1 entries- злополучен adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Catalan
1 entries- desventurat adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Cebuano
1 entries- makalolooy adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Czech
2 entries- nešťastný adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
- pronásledovaný smůlou adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Danish
1 entries- ulykkelig adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Dutch
2 entries- onfortuinlijk adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
- ongelukkig adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Finnish
3 entries- epäonninen adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
- kovaonninen adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
- onneton adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
French
3 entries- infortuné adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
- malchanceux adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
- malheureux adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Galician
1 entries- cativo adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
German
1 entries- unglückselig adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Greek
1 entries- άμοιρος adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Hungarian
2 entries- balsorsú adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
- szerencsétlen adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Indonesian
1 entries- malang adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Italian
1 entries- sfortunato adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Latin
1 entries- miseros adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Macedonian
1 entries- не́среќен adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Manx
1 entries- neuspeeideilagh adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Māori
2 entries- taitaiā adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
- wairuatoa adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- اوغورسز adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
- بختسز adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
- قوتسز adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- onjlekjlich adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Portuguese
1 entries- azarado adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Russian
2 entries- невезу́чий adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
- неуда́чливый adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- nesretan adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Spanish
3 entries- desgraciado adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
- infeliz adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
- infortunado adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Swedish
1 entries- olycklig adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Turkish
3 entries- bahtsız adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
- uğursuz adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
- şanssız adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Yiddish
1 entries- שלימאַזלדיק adj (very unlucky; ill-fated)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
"Sychaeus was her lord, in happier time / the richest of Phoenicians far and wide / in land, and worshipped by his hapless bride. / Her, in the bloom of maidenhood, her sire / had given him, and with virgin rites allied."
Source: tatoeba (6787208)
Doomed to devouring love, the hapless queen / burns as she gazes, with insatiate fire, / charmed by his presents and his youthful mien.
Source: tatoeba (6800188)
But when in youthful arms came Priam near, / "Ah, hapless lord!" she cries, "what mad desire / arms thee for battle? Why this sword and spear? / And whither art thou hurrying?"
Source: tatoeba (6844782)
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