Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Hapless \Hap"less\, a.
   Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy;
   as, hapless youth; hapless maid. --Dryden.

Source : WordNet®

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