Definition of alas

"alas" in the noun sense

1. ala

a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism

"the alae of the nose"

"the alae of a maple seed"

"the flat petals of a pea blossom are alae"

2. ala

a wing of an insect

"alas" in the adverb sense

1. unfortunately, unluckily, regrettably, alas

by bad luck

"unfortunately it rained all day"

"alas, I cannot stay"

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Quotations for alas

Hope, alas! is our waking dream. [ Madame de Girardin ]

Alas, the incertitude of the law! [ Burke ]

Alas! we are the sport of destiny. [ Thackeray ]

Alas! that dreams are only dreams!
That fancy cannot give
A lasting beauty to those forms.
Which scarce a moment live! [ Rufus Dawes ]

Alas! the praise given to the ear
Never was nor never can be sincere. [ Miss Landon ]

'Tis said that absence conquers love;
But oh! believe it not.
I've tried, alas! its power to prove,
But thou art not forgot. [ Frederick W. Thomas ]

Alas for the folly of the loquacious! [ Seneca ]

Alas by some degree of woe,
We every bliss must gain;
The heart can never a transport know,
That never feels a pain. [ Lord Lyttleton ]

Alas! there are no more any miracles. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

The cradle and the tomb, alas! so nigh. [ Prior ]

Alas, for the treachery of opportunity! [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Alas! our young affections run to waste,
Or water but the desert. [ Byron ]

Alas! our frailty is the cause, not we;
For, such as we are made of, such we be. [ William Shakespeare ]

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire! [ Bovee ]

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies;
Life's a short summer - man a flower -
He dies - alas! how soon he dies! [ Dr. Johnson ]

Alas! for piety! Alas! for ancient faith! [ Virgil ]

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear;
'Tis but the funeral of the former year. [ Pope ]

Alas! there is no instinct like the heart! [ Byron ]

Alas! the fleeting years are passing away. [ Horace ]

Alas, could experience be bought for gold! [ Mme. Deluzy ]

Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress-trees!
Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play! [ Whittier ]

Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. [ Claudianus ]

Alas! how difficult it is to retain glory! [ Syrus ]

Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few,
And soon the grassy coverlet of God
Spreads equal green above their ashes pale. [ Bayard Taylor ]

The Raven's house is built with reeds, -
Sing woe, and alas is me!
And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds,
High on the hollow tree;
And the Raven himself, telling his beads
In penance for his past misdeeds.
Upon the top I see. [ Thos. Darcy McGee ]

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. [ Goethe ]

Alas! how difficult is the custody of glory. [ Publius Syrus ]

Alas! I have not words to tell my grief;
To vent my sorrow would be some relief;
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain;
We groan, we cannot speak, in greater pain. [ Dryden ]

Alas! today I would give everything
To see a friend's face, or hear a voice
That had the slightest tone of comfort in it. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Alas! how much better is your fate than mine! [ Ovid ]

Alas, by what rude fate
Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet.
Then part forever on their courses fleet. [ E. C. Stedman ]

Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit,
Or what is worse, be left by it?
Why dost thou load thyself when thou 'rt to fly.
Oh, man! ordained to die?
Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high,
Thou who art under ground to lie?
Thou sow'st and plantest, but no fruit must see.
For death, alas! is reaping thee. [ Cowley ]

Alas! that from happiness there so often springs pain. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Alas! how enthusiasm decreases as experience increases! [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Alas that we must dwell, my heart and I, so far asunder! [ Christina G. Rossetti ]

I have lost my life, alas! in laboriously doing nothing. [ Grotius ]

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray guilt by our looks! [ Ovid ]

Alas! what does man here below? A little noise in much shadow. [ Victor Hugo ]

To remember- to forget: alas! this is what makes us young or old. [ A. de Musset ]

Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction. [ Claudianus ]

Alas! the breast that inly bleeds has nought to fear from outward blow. [ Byron ]

Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget! [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt. [ J. G. Saxe ]

Alas! how difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt. [ Ovid ]

Alas! how can we always resist? The devil tempts us, and the flesh is weak. [ Voltaire ]

It is, alas! the poor prerogative of greatness, to be wretched and unpitied. [ Congreve ]

Alas! no fleshly pinion will so easily keep pace with the wings of the spirit. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Commonsense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity. [ Bovee ]

Is there a heart that music cannot melt? Alas! how is that rugged heart forlorn. [ Beattie ]

Alas! it is not permitted to any one to feel confident when the gods are adverse. [ Virgil ]

Alas! how galling is it to be injured by one against whom you dare make no complaint. [ Publius Syrus ]

Two souls, alas! dwell in my breast; the one struggles to separate itself from the other. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Faust." ]

We are hampered, alas! in our course of life quite as much by what we do as by what we suffer. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Truth lies at the bottom of a well, the depth of which, alas! gives but little hope of release. [ Democritus ]

Remembrance of the dead soon fades. Alas! in their tombs, they decay more slowly than in our hearts. [ Victor Hugo ]

The presence of the wretched is a burden to the happy; and alas! the happy still more so to the wretched. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Alas! alas! why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; and he that might the vantage best have took found out the remedy. [ William Shakespeare ]

We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep! [ J. Petit-Senn ]

There is but one class of men to be trembled at, and that is the stupid class, the class that cannot see; who, alas! are mainly they that will not see. [ Carlyle ]

Virginity of the heart, alas! so soon ravished! sweet dreams! expectations of happiness' and of love! fresh illusions of the morning of life! why do you not last till the end of the day! [ Gavarni ]

Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the ever-living, ever-working universe. It is a seed-grain that cannot die; unnoticed today, it will be found flourishing as a banyan-grove, perhaps, alas! as a hemlock forest, after a thousand years. [ Carlyle ]

alas in Scrabble®

The word alas is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters alas:

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alas in Words With Friends™

The word alas is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters alas:

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Word Growth involving alas

Shorter words in alas

as

la

Longer words containing alas

achalasia

alaska

amygdalas

cytochalasins

dalasi dalasis

galas

glyoxalase

impalas

kabalas

kabbalas

koalas

qabalas

talas catalase catalases

thalassaemia thalassaemias

thalassemia thalassemias

thalassiarch thalassiarchs

thalassiophyte thalassiophytes

thalassiophytic

thalassocracy

thalassophobe thalassophobes

thalassophobia

thalassophobic thalassophobics

thalassophyte thalassophytes

thalassophytic

thalassotherapies

thalassotherapy