Crossword clues for alack
alack
- Sighed cry
- Expression of regret
- Dear me!
- Dismayed cry
- 'Oh, woe'
- What a pity!
- Oh, dear!
- Cry of regret
- Alas partner
- Shakespearean "shucks"
- Shakespearean shucks
- Old-style term of regret
- Old word of woe
- Alas and ___
- "Alas and __!"
- Shakespearean cry of woe
- Quaint word of dismay
- Partner of "alas"
- Old-timey "alas" partner
- Old-style cry of regret
- Old word of sorrow
- Oh woe!
- Kin of alas
- Cousin of alas
- Cordelia's word of lament
- Alas's partner
- Alas and __
- Ah, me
- "Alas and ___!"
- "__! what poverty my Muse brings forth": Shak
- 'Alas and --!'
- "Alas and _____"
- "Wellaway!"
- "Alas and ___"
- Disheartened cry
- "Woe is me!" in Elizabethan times
- Word of woe
- Old cry of dismay
- Shakespearean lament
- Elizabethan interjection
- Companion of alas
- Partner of alas
- Follower of 13 Down
- Alas's kin
- Welladay!
- Term of tribulation
- "___, the heavy day . . . ": Richard II
- Woeful exclamation
- "Ah, me!"
- Sorrowful cry
- Vitamin deficiency generates expression of regret
- A thing I don’t have, I regret to say!
- Head abandons lecture about a Cuban leader, sad to say
- "Dear me!"
- Cry of dismay
- Word of regret
- Cry of woe
- 'Oh, woe!'
- Woe is me
- Word of sorrow
- Woeful expression
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alack \A*lack"\, interj. [Prob. from ah! lack! OE. lak loss,
failure, misfortune. See Lack.]
An exclamation expressive of sorrow. [Archaic. or Poet.]
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from ah, lack, from lack in Middle English sense of "loss, failure, reproach, shame." Originally an expression of dissatisfaction, later of regret or unpleasant surprise.
Wiktionary
interj. An expression of sorrow or mourning.
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "alack".
Alack Alack, and my only excuse is that Americans are just as bad about baseball.
Let memory lead thee back To where waves Morning her fleur-de-lys, Unflushed at the front of the roseate door Unopened yet: never shadow there Of a Tartarus lighted by Dis For souls whose cry is, alack!
Therefore I grieve, as well I might, Because of my poetic plight-- Though bards and rhymers all I scorn, Alack!