Synonyms and Antonyms of hapless
- the hapless motorist had barely paid his bill and driven away from the body shop when a truck sideswiped his car
adverse, ill, inauspicious, unfavorable, unpromising, untoward
calamitous, catastrophic, disastrous
accursed (or accurst), damned, doomed, tragic (also tragical)
blessed (also blest), favored, gifted, privileged