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Regrettable vs Alas - What's the difference?

regrettable | alas |

As an adjective regrettable

is of an event, action, or state, allowing or deserving regret.

As an interjection 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}.

regrettable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of an event, action, or state, allowing or deserving regret.
    • His painting his name of my car was more than regrettable , it was criminal.
    It was regrettable that the teacher made the class retake the test when he was wrong about the answers.

    Related terms

    * * regret * regrettably * regretter * regretful * regretfulness * regretfully

    See also

    * pitiful

    alas

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) a las (French .

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • Used to express sorrow, regret, compassion or grief.
  • * Act 5, Scene 1
    • 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.
    Synonyms
    * alack
    Derived terms
    * alack and alas

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • a type of

    • Anagrams

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