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

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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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How to use alas in a sentence?

1. Xavier Lerma:

   President Vladimir Putin could never have imagined anyone so ignorant or so willing to destroy their people like Obama much less seeing millions vote for someone like Obama. They read history in America don't they? Alas, the schools in the U.S. were conquered by the Communists long ago and history was revised thus paving the way for their Communist presidents.

2. AiR:

   Alas! Man has discovered everything, but he has not discovered the God that is within.

3. Sydney Smith:

   I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

4. Dennis Potter:

   Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas -- a political animal is such an animal. But lurking somewhere behind their rhetoric and their spittle are important choices that we should make.

5. Thomas Doherty:

   I don't think the funeral will be the last great global event of the television era, but, alas, the great global TV events of the future will probably be disasters : an assassination, a terrorist attack, a deliberate or accidental nuclear event, a huge natural disaster, a pandemic, a coup in a major North American democracy — something everyone will have to watch.