alas
alas is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accusation
- aching
- again
- and
- bad
- behind
- bewail
- bitterness
- cast
- day
- deplore
- discontent
- hang
- have
- heartburning
- homesick
- lament
- lamentable
- lamentation
- laudator
- leave
- lingering
- longing
- look
- mind
- most
- much
- nostalgia
- penitence
- pity
- prey
- recrimination
- regret
- regretful
- repent
- repine
- rue
- sorry
- the
- too
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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