Synonyms for ALAS
əˈlæs, əˈlɑsalas

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1. alasinterjection

   Synonyms:
   alack

2. alasinterjection

   Used to express sorrow, regret, compassion or grief.

   Synonyms:
   alack

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1. unfortunately, unluckily, regrettably, alasadverb

   by bad luck

   "unfortunately it rained all day"; "alas, I cannot stay"

   Synonyms:
   regrettably, unluckily, unfortunately, alas

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1. alasinterj.

   Synonyms:
   alack, lackaday

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1. List of paraphrases for "alas":

   unfortunately, sadly, regrettably, alack, regretfully

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1. Engadget Engadget reviewer Chris Velazco:

   And a damn good phone. Alas, I am too used to no home button for it to be really appealing to me, but this is going to be a great phone for millions of people. And talk about timing on the value side of things $ 399 for an iPhone with Apples latest power plant on board is huge.

2. Søren Kierkegaard, Asluttende uvidenskabeligt Efterskrift:

   Alas! While the speculative honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and simply a man, not a fantastic 38 of a paragraph.

3. Dmitry Medvedev:

   An act of terror with our plane and the terror attack in Paris ... have sharpened the global political agenda, the war is declared against the whole civilised world. The threat is global and, alas, is real. So the stance of some Western countries on Russia looks weird.

4. Joseph Brodsky:

   For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.

5. Herodotus:

   One man envies the success in life of another, and hates him in secret; nor is he willing to give him good advice when he is consulted, except it be by some wonderful effort of good feeling, and there are, alas, few such men in the world. A real friend, on the other hand, exults in his friend?s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.