English to English
alas
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interjection (int)
- An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.(interjection)source: webster1913
adverb (r)
- by bad luck(adv.all)Example:
Alas, I cannot stay.
Synonym:
regrettably, unfortunately, unluckily
Antonym:
as luck would have it, fortuitously, fortunately, luckilysource: wordnet30