Antonyms 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

How to use alas in a sentence?

1. Sarah N. Cleghorn:

   The unfit die -- the fit both live and thrive. Alas, who say so They who do survive.

2. George Carlin, From his book - Brain Droppings:

   Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.

3. 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.

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. Mitch McConnell:

   Some House Democrats imply they are withholding the [impeachment]articles for some kind of leverage, i admit, Im not sure what leverage there is in refraining from sending us something we do not want.Alas, if theycan figure that out, they can explain.

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