Alas

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • interjection. Used to express sorrow, regret, grief, compassion, or apprehension of danger or evil.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • interjection. Used to express sorrow, regret, compassion or grief.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • interjection. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • An exclamation expressive of sorrow, grief, pity, concern, or apprehension of evil: in old writers sometimes followed by the day or the while: as, alas the day, alas the while. See alackaday.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • ad. by bad luck
  • Antonym
    euhoe   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    alack    ohone    ah    woe   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alsace    Cass    Glass    Grass    Grasse