"Wellaway!" updated (4 letters)

{ Answer }

ALAS

{ Related Clues }

Pity!
Wellaway!
"Ah, me!"
"Ah, well ..."
Alack's partner
" . . . ___ for England": Chesterton
Exclamation of sorrow
Expression of sadness
"How awful!"
"O dear!"
"Oh dear!"
Oh me!
"Oh, woe!"
Oh, woe!
Opposite of "Happily ..."
Pitying cry
Poetic plaint
"___! poor Yorick"
Resigned remark
Sad disyllable
"Sad to say ..."
"Shucks!," to a poet
Sighed word
Sorrowing cry
Sorrowing sound
"Such a pity"
"Too bad!"
"Too bad"
Too bad!
Wistful word
"Woe is me!"
Woeful cry
Woeful expression
Word of rue
Word of woe
Word for Yorick
Cry said with a sigh
Dignified cousin of "Shucks!"
Gloomy Gus's expression
"Sustineo ___," U.S.A.F. motto
Word said with a sigh
"Oh, were it not true!"

{ Tags }

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{ Notes }

The answer ALAS is very common and appears about once every 27.7 puzzles.

{ Definition }

ALA as a noun:

1. 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. a wing of an insect

ALAS as an adverb:

1. (unfortunately, unluckily, regrettably, alas) = by bad luck; "unfortunately it rained all day"; "alas, I cannot stay"