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Isn't the antonym of hapless opportunistic (without its negative connotation)?

• pg 18y ago
  Opportunistic (without its negative connotation) = resourceful. That gets you the direction of the vector, then you add relentlessly as the magnitude.
• dfranke 18y ago
  Obviously, the opposite of hapless is hapful.
  • Hexstream 18y ago
    I sometimes get annoyed at English's lack of symmetry. The opposite of... is not... worthless worthful senseless senseful wasteful wasteless handful handless moreover lessover (moreunder?)
    • KayEss 18y ago
      flammable/inflammable?
    • dfranke 18y ago
      'wasteless' seems cromulent to me.
  • vlad 18y ago
    Or, hapmore.
• cosmo7 18y ago
  Hap is a middle English word meaning luck or fate. Things happen, mishaps occur. Perhaps. Hapless means being in a situation with no logical way out, such as being stuck in quicksand, or being good at Ruby on Rails.
  • aaronblohowiak 18y ago
    Can you please elaborate on why being good at RoR is being in a situation with no logical way out?
    • menloparkbum 18y ago
      Can you please elaborate on why being good at RoR is being in a situation with no logical way out? Sure. I learned Ruby on Rails about 3 years ago at a startup. I've since been trying to do other things for employment, but nobody wants to pay me to do anything besides Rails. Lucky for me, the economy has collapsed so nobody wants to pay me to do Rails, either.