who was halpness ?Why?
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Hapless literally means what you'd expect it to mean: "without hap"—hap being another word for "fortune" or "luck." Hap derives from the Old Norse word for "good luck." (Happen and happy are also descendants of the same ancient root word.) English has several words to describe those lacking good fortune, including ill-starred, ill-fated, unlucky, and luckless, a word formed in parallel to hapless by adding the suffix -less. Ill-starred suggests bringing calamity or the threat of a terrible fate ("the ill-starred year the Great Depression began"). Ill-fated refers only to being doomed ("the ill-fated voyage of the Titanic"). Luckless and unlucky usually apply to a person or thing notably or chronically unfortunate ("the luckless investor lost all her money" and "an unlucky man who failed at everything he tried").