What is the difference between alack and alas?
alack | alas | Synonyms |
An expression of sorrow or mourning.
Used to express sorrow, regret, compassion or grief.
* Act 5, Scene 1
a type of
Alas is a synonym of alack.
As interjections the difference between alack and alas
is that alack is an expression of sorrow or mourning while alas is used to express sorrow, regret, compassion or grief.As a noun alas is
a type of {{l/en|depression}} which occurs in {{l/en|Yakutia}}, formed by the {{l/en|subsidence}} of {{l/en|permafrost}.alack
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- On a day (alack the day!)
- Love, whose month is ever May,
- Spied a blossom passing fair
- Playing in the wanton air.'' – '' – Shakespeare
Synonyms
*Derived terms
* alack and alasalas
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) a las (French .Interjection
(en interjection)- Alas , Poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.