TubeTalk Pronunciation
How to pronounce “hapless”
Hear “hapless” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for hapless
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of hapless with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Africa's Great Carbon Valley -- and How to End Energy Poverty
that Africa is a poor, hapless, helpless climate change victim.
- Definition summary
- (especially of a person) unfortunate.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce hapless
Africa's Great Carbon Valley -- and How to End Energy Poverty

that Africa is a poor, hapless, helpless climate change victim.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “hapless”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- (especially of a person) unfortunate.
- Very unlucky; ill-fated.
- (Very) miserable, wretched, unhappy, measly, forlorn.
- Devoid of talent or skill.
Practice Nearby Words
unfortunate, misfortunate, poor, miserable, wretched, pitiable, pitiful, pathetic, piteous, ill-fated, unlucky, unhappy, unholy, calamitous, sad, lackless, fortuneless, graceless, forlorn, helpless, luckless, speedless, unfortuned, blitheless, despairful, disadvantaged, hopeless, forsaken, unpitiful, successless, handless, joyless, wishless, opportuneless, weak-handed, limbless, impotent, despairing, sapless, silly, dadless, desolate, hatless, emptyhanded, addle, chanceless, unglad, hitless, impecunious, wealthless, lonesome, favorless, plightless, footless, despondent, reliefless, goodless, woeless, unpitous, doomed, winless, witless, hard up, jobless, unpossessing, bereft, flat on one's back, down-hearted, shiftless, foolish, whelpless, wareless, almsless, lowhearted, succourless, gladless, bleak, downhearted, bankrupt, lackwitted, unfenced, indigent, discouraged, loserest, uncompanioned, lovelorn, companionless, saviorless, daddyless, necessitous, imbecile, unheired, bad off, helperless, succorless, underprivileged, unhelped, down and out, employmentally challenged, thankless
Similar Sounds
hapless, hopeless, hipless, high place, hooplas, sapless, capless, chapless, napless, helpless, hatless, haply, habeas, habla, hueless, hallas, hapus, hippus, hilus, hippias, haplo, hoop-la, topless, tapeless, shapeless, lipless, soapless, nablus, peplus, zipless, gapless, shipless, hollis, hillis, habilis, helice, hopis, happiness, happiest, hallows, hoopla, halla, haps, haploid, hitless, hallah, heatless, hallux, happs, hellas, halas, hollas, helas, hang loose, homeplace, haplessly, halse, helos, hoplites, haploids, hipness, houseless, higher place, hallos, hylas, haul ass, home place, hull house, hiply, hoop la, hell house, hurless, habas, hapl, hill house, tubeless, the place, tablas, dallas, callous, jobless, callus, lapis, captious, calice, balas, calis, kappas, laplace, malas, ballasts, calas, bibless, caplets, a-plus, by place, fabless, la place