Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
deserving or inciting pity
A hapless victim. Miserable victims of war. The shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic. Piteous appeals for help. Pitiable homeless children. A pitiful fate. Oh, you poor thing. His poor distorted limbs. A wretched life.
