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- What means of sadly?
- What is the difference between sad and sadly?
- What is a better word for sadly?
- What does Sadly enough mean?
- What does unfortunately mean?
- What is unfortunately an example of?
- Is unfortunately a negative word?
- What is the difference between Unfortunately and fortunately?
- Is it less fortunate or less unfortunate?
- What kind of word is unfortunately?
- What’s another word for Unfortunately?
- What is a stronger word than Unfortunately?
- What is the opposite of unfortunately?
- What is the opposite word of unfortunately?
- Is unfortunately a formal word?
- Is there a comma after unfortunately?
- What is the opposite of true?
- What mean empty?
Sadly sentence example
What means of sadly?
1 : in a sad manner : in a way that shows sadness or unhappiness They spoke sadly of their loss. She shook her head sadly.
- One day she said, sadly : I am blind and deaf.
- But sadly , other people don’t think his work is any good.
- Sadly , patriotism is as well.
- Deidre smiled sadly as he glanced at her.
- Sadly , all their attention was for naught.
- In this hope he was sadly disappointed.
What is the difference between sad and sadly?
is that “sadly” is in a sad manner; sorrowfully and “sad” is emotionally negative.
What is a better word for sadly?
Synonyms & Antonyms of sadly
- agonizingly,
- bitterly,
- dolefully,
- dolorously,
- grievously,
- hard,
- hardly,
- inconsolably,
What does Sadly enough mean?
1 feeling sorrow; unhappy. 2 causing, suggestive, or expressive of such feelings. a sad story. 3 unfortunate; unsatisfactory; shabby; deplorable.
What does unfortunately mean?
used to say that something is sad, disappointing, or has a bad effect: Unfortunately, I didn’t have my credit card with me, or else I would have bought it. Synonyms. alas formal or humorous. sadly (UNPLEASANT)
What is unfortunately an example of?
Unfortunately is defined as sadly or regrettably. An example of unfortunately is being unhappy about missing a party due to being in court; he unfortunately missed the party. Happening through bad luck, or because of some unfortunate event.
Is unfortunately a negative word?
Words like cannot, damage, do not, error, fail, impossible, little value, loss, mistake, not, problem, refuse, stop, unable to, unfortunately, escalation, urgent, never, inability and unsound all have a strong negative connotation.
What is the difference between Unfortunately and fortunately?
As adverbs the difference between fortunately and unfortunately. is that fortunately is in a fortunate manner while unfortunately is happening through bad luck, or because of some unfortunate event.
Is it less fortunate or less unfortunate?
As adjectives the difference between unfortunate and fortunate. is that unfortunate is not favored by fortune while fortunate is coming by good luck or favorable chance.
What kind of word is unfortunately?
Unfortunately is the adverb form of unfortunate — so unfortunately means “unluckily.” If someone asks you whether you have to go to work tomorrow when you’d rather go to the beach, you might answer, “Unfortunately.” You might also use unfortunately when you give someone bad news, as in “Unfortunately, we cannot accept …
What’s another word for Unfortunately?
In this page you can discover 39 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for unfortunately, like: regrettably, unluckily, miserably, sadly, grievously, discouragingly, if worst comes to worst, predestinately, catastrophically, as-luck-would-have-it and alas.
What is a stronger word than Unfortunately?
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for unfortunately. lamentably, regrettably, sadly, tragically.
What is the opposite of unfortunately?
What is the opposite of unfortunately?
fortunately | luckily |
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auspiciously | satisfyingly |
by a happy chance | by good fortune |
by good luck | thank God |
thank goodness | thank heavens |
What is the opposite word of unfortunately?
Antonyms: fortunately, luckily, fortuitously, as luck would have it. Synonyms: regrettably, unluckily, alas.
Is unfortunately a formal word?
Unfortunately Synonyms – WordHippo Thesaurus….What is another word for unfortunately?
unluckily | regrettably |
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lamentably | sadly |
unhappily | woefully |
alas | regretfully |
ruefully | agonisinglyUK |
Is there a comma after unfortunately?
Do we need a comma before or after “unfortunately”? Meanwhile, a comma is placed after unfortunately when it is used as a disjunctive adverbial at the beginning of a clause. Whereas, no commas are needed when it functions as an adverb of manner that modifies an adjacent verb, adjective, or adverb.
What is the opposite of true?
Opposite of in accordance with the truth or facts. false. fake. inaccurate.
What mean empty?
Adjective. empty, vacant, blank, void, vacuous mean lacking contents which could or should be present. empty suggests a complete absence of contents. an empty bucket vacant suggests an absence of appropriate contents or occupants.
What is another word for Sadly?
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adv
• deeply (adverb)
- to the quick,
- feelingly,
- affectingly,
- the quick.
• hopelessly (adverb)
- darkly,
- emptily,
- desolately,
- dispiritedly,
- cynically,
- spiritlessly.
• Other relevant words: (adverb)
- grievously,
- disastrously,
- forlornly,
- unsuccessfully,
- heartbrokenly,
- dolefully,
- glumly,
- deeply,
- in sorrow,
- lamentably,
- unluckily,
- woefully,
- deep,
- distressfully,
- unpleasantly,
- unfortunately,
- regrettably,
- in sadness,
- hopelessly,
- horribly.
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adv.
• all (adverb)
- sadly.
• deeply (adverb)
- movingly.
• dejectedly (adverb)
- despairingly,
- moodily,
- joylessly,
- sullenly,
- melancholically,
- Contemplatively,
- pensively,
- disconsolately,
- downheartedly,
- anxiously,
- plaintively,
- wistfully.
• hopelessly (adverb)
- pessimistically.
• sorrowfully (adverb)
- Weepingly.
• unfortunately (adverb)
- un-successfully,
- un successfully,
- un fortunately,
- un-fortunately.
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n.
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•
- heartbreaking,
- tragic,
- painful,
- terrible,
- depressing,
- upsetting.
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- utterly,
- utter,
- such as it is,
- downright,
- thorough.
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- subdued,
- bleak.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- gloomy,
- moody,
- distraught,
- self-pity,
- dystopia,
- melancholia,
- excruciatingly,
- cut,
- mourn,
- contrite,
- torturously,
- guilt trip,
- drearily,
- isolated,
- distressingly,
- rue,
- cry,
- bleakly,
- discouraged,
- depressed,
- repentant,
- grieving,
- smart,
- Egregiously,
- low-spirited,
- bereft,
- sad,
- homesick,
- mope,
- bittersweet,
- woeful,
- awfully,
- desolate,
- dejectedly,
- deflated,
- depression,
- guilt,
- baldly,
- melancholic,
- frightfully,
- lonely,
- disgruntled,
- happy,
- chagrin,
- heartache,
- suffering,
- sorry,
- regretful,
- painfully,
- maudlin,
- unduly,
- harrowingly,
- worse,
- forlorn,
- prick,
- hellishly,
- the doldrums,
- unfulfilled,
- regret,
- excessively,
- lugubriously,
- dissatisfied,
- shattered,
- dour,
- hurt,
- shockingly,
- unpardonably,
- dismal,
- lament,
- exorbitantly,
- glum,
- disaffected,
- mournful,
- blue,
- deadly,
- wistful,
- inexcusably,
- gravely,
- nakedly,
- lovesick,
- tragically,
- flagrantly,
- repent,
- guilt-ridden,
- groan,
- doleful,
- miserable,
- abject,
- Harrowed,
- downhearted,
- cheerless,
- sorrow,
- ruefully,
- conscience,
- deucedly,
- guilt complex,
- wretchedly,
- unprovidentially,
- staggeringly,
- pitiably,
- heavily,
- heartbreakingly,
- something fierce,
- frustrated,
- compunction,
- dolorously,
- inconsolable,
- hopeless,
- careworn,
- downcast,
- sick,
- morose,
- gloom,
- terribly,
- traumatize,
- devastation,
- wrench,
- dismally,
- sort,
- gloomily,
- choked,
- lonesome,
- extravagantly,
- turn,
- unhappy,
- dog,
- broody,
- intolerably,
- agonizingly,
- brooding,
- suicidal,
- deplorably,
- shame,
- openly,
- solemnly,
- cruelly,
- woe,
- broken,
- sorrowfully,
- sackcloth,
- grief,
- dump,
- dejected,
- grim,
- balefully,
- sorely,
- distress,
- blues,
- mournfully,
- low,
- bruised,
- lovelorn,
- Martyred,
- guilty,
- crestfallen,
- pain,
- in adverse circumstances,
- vale,
- morosely,
- miss,
- funk,
- shatteringly,
- guilt trip,
- hard,
- joyless,
- defeatism,
- sorrowful,
- somberly,
- wish,
- Sorrily,
- pitifully,
- long,
- disappointed,
- lachrymose,
- loneliness,
- unashamedly,
- unhappily,
- heartsick,
- confoundedly,
- Funereally,
- Sombrously,
- unbearably,
- fear,
- disconsolate,
- sting,
- bitter,
- dismay,
- blatantly,
- unconscionably,
- damnably,
- lugubrious,
- remorse,
- heartbreak,
- inordinately,
- miserably,
- heavy,
- distressed,
- wound 1,
- disenchanted,
- wounded,
- desperation,
- unsmiling,
- dreadfully,
- pained,
- piteously,
- misery,
- by ill luck,
- despair,
- lump,
- by ill hap,
- woebegone,
- screwed up,
- deathly,
- shaky,
- pathetically,
- mourning,
- infernally,
- bit,
- slough,
- disillusioned,
- improperly,
- down,
- brashly,
- only,
- discontent,
- dishearten,
- heartbroken,
- bitterly,
- dark,
- monday,
- grimly,
- demoralized,
- displease,
- void,
- Gutted,
- injured,
- upset,
- born,
- conscience-stricken,
- bad,
- remorseful,
- repine,
- lamentation,
- wretched,
- desolation,
- hapless,
- despondently,
- despondent,
- mope around (somewhere),
- mouth,
- melancholy,
- abominably,
- heart,
- Broken-hearted,
- something awful,
- rueful.
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Other synonyms:
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•
- grinding,
- uncomfortably,
- spiritually,
- supremely,
- fiercely,
- unmitigated.
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•
- come to,
- excruciating,
- dreadful,
- monumental,
- cataclysmic,
- unspeakable,
- half,
- plain,
- wicked.
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•
- royal,
- fearful.
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•
- dirty.
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- already.
• Other relevant words (noun):
- in all seriousness,
- in all conscience,
- contritely,
- seriously,
- loads,
- dimly,
- sombrely,
- criminally,
- Infamously,
- stinking,
- murkily,
- disagreeably,
- murky,
- of a truth,
- yes,
- cheerlessly,
- meager,
- bleeding,
- atrocious,
- black,
- in fact,
- pathetic,
- leadenly,
- scores,
- indeed,
- poignantly,
- stacks,
- horridly,
- grossly,
- horrible,
- desperately,
- fearfully,
- detestably,
- wads,
- soulfully,
- why,
- resentfully,
- vilely,
- despicably,
- scandalously,
- regretfully,
- belief,
- odiously,
- assent,
- inconsolably,
- Haplessly,
- by jingo,
- ruddy,
- Egad,
- remorsefully,
- Perdy,
- poorly,
- obnoxiously,
- troth,
- wailfully,
- all joking aside,
- tearfully,
- cruel,
- oodles,
- scads,
- forsooth,
- mountain,
- tons,
- reprehensibly,
- outrageously,
- execrably,
- penitent,
- dingily,
- gobs,
- emaciated,
- dully,
- I’ faith,
- alas,
- shamefully,
- truly,
- Gauntly,
- lean,
- touchingly,
- basely,
- piles,
- in earnest,
- badly,
- calamitously,
- rafts,
- foully,
- contemptibly,
- soberly,
- atrociously,
- unfortunate,
- rotten,
- lashings,
- mirthlessly,
- marry,
- Bluely,
- dreary,
- heaps,
- hardly,
- Blackly,
- afraid,
- monstrous,
- drably,
- dozens,
- in truth,
- gaunt.
How to use «Sadly» in context?
Sad is what I am
I’m feeling so down, my heartache is real
I try to fight it, but I can’t
It feels like the world is ending
sadly, I can’t hold on to the happiness I once felt
Every smile feels like a painful reminder
Of what I once had and how I now must lose
There’s a hole inside where my happiness used to be
And it seems to get bigger every day
I don’t know how to make it go away
All I want is for things to be the way they were
But sadly
Paraphrases for Sadly:
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Proper noun, singular
regrettably, unfortunately.
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Adverb
regretfully, regrettably, unfortunately.
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Proper noun, singular
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Independent
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Adverb
already, badly, cruelly, deplorably, depressingly, desperately, disappointingly, disgracefully, fortunately, however, painfully, pathetically, regrettable, sorely, unhappily, woefully, Alack.
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Verb, past tense
Regretted.
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Adverb
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Other Related
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Adverb
alas, lamentably, sad.
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Adverb
Homophones for Sadly:
- settle, statute title, stela, scuttle, systole, seattle, sweet wattle, staddle, statute law, stool, St. Leo I, staidly, sidewall, swaddle, shot hole, stella, skedaddle, stall, steal, stael, shuttle, stilly, still, steadily, sedately, sagittal, steele, skittle alley, sea dahlia, steely, saxatile, steel, style, sitwell, seidel, stole, study hall, sweetly, stele, schedule, saddle, sidle, sweet oil, stoolie, stately, stile, societal, steal away, sightly, suicidal, stilwell, steel wool, stale, sedalia, skittle.
- wistfully
- cheerlessly
- dejectedly
- dismally
- dolefully
- gloomily
- grievously
- joylessly
- morosely
- sorrowfully
On this page you’ll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sadly, such as: wistfully, cheerlessly, dejectedly, dismally, dolefully, and gloomily.
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WORDS RELATED TO SADLY
- acutely
- affectingly
- distressingly
- feelingly
- genuinely
- gravely
- intensely
- mournfully
- movingly
- passionately
- profoundly
- sadly
- seriously
- severely
- surely
- thoroughly
- to the quick
- cynically
- darkly
- dejectedly
- desolately
- despairingly
- desperately
- despondently
- disconsolately
- dismally
- dispiritedly
- emptily
- gloomily
- pessimistically
- sadly
- spiritlessly
- acutely
- badly
- distressfully
- greatly
- grievously
- heartbrokenly
- painfully
- sadly
- severely
- very
- woefully
- dolefully
- in sadness
- in sorrow
- sadly
- weepingly
- disastrously
- dismally
- grievously
- horribly
- lamentably
- miserably
- regrettably
- sadly
- unhappily
- unsuccessfully
- despondently
- forlornly
- gloomily
- glumly
- sadly
- sorrowfully
- unpleasantly
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sadly, unhappilyadverb
in an unfortunate way
«sadly he died before he could see his grandchild»
Synonyms:
woefully, deplorably, lamentably, unhappilyAntonyms:
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sadlyadverb
with sadness; in a sad manner
«`She died last night,’ he said sadly»
Synonyms:
woefully, deplorably, lamentably, unhappilyAntonyms:
happily -
deplorably, lamentably, sadly, woefullyadverb
in an unfortunate or deplorable manner
«he was sadly neglected»; «it was woefully inadequate»
Synonyms:
woefully, unhappily, lamentably, deplorablyAntonyms:
happily
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List of paraphrases for «sadly»:
unfortunately, regrettably, alas, regretfully, woefully, depressingly, tragically, lamentably, pathetically, sad
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Bernie Sanders:
The answer is, sadly, there are elements of the Democratic Party, historically, that have worked too closely with the big money interests that have made the agreements that were really not in the best interest of the constituents who supported them.
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Donald Trump:
Sadly I have so many attorneys you wouldn’t even believe it.
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Ren Leppens:
Sadly, the likelihood of being able to successfully re-float the remaining whales was extremely low, the remote location, lack of nearby personnel and the whales’ deteriorating condition meant the most humane thing to do was to euthanize.
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Marc Maron:
Sadly, I knew what most people knew : There was a story out there, I guess going back several years, there were unnamed people in the story, it took place in a hotel room in Aspen. It was always out there, but then it would pick up momentum at different times, and I would ask Comedian Louis . about it. I would say, ‘ This story about you forcing these women to watch you jerk off, what is that, is that true ? ’ Comedian Louis . goes, ‘ No, it’s not true. It’s not real. It’s a rumor. ’ And I would say, ‘ Well, are you going to address it somehow ? Handle it ? Get out from under it whenever it shows up ? ’ ‘ Comedian Louis . ca n’t, I ca n’t do that. I ca n’t give it life, give it air. ’ That was the conversation.
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Donald Trump:
Texas Florida are doing great but Puerto Rico, which was already suffering from broken infrastructure massive debt, is in deep trouble, texas Florida’s old electrical grid, which was in terrible shape, was devastated. Much of the Island was destroyed, with billions of dollars… owed to Wall Street and the banks which, sadly, must be dealt with. Food, water and medical are top priorities — and doing well.
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Synonyms for sadly
in an unfortunate way
in an unfortunate or deplorable manner
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Sadly they watched over every bird and blossom which she had loved, and strove to be like her in kindly words and deeds.
When the Elves had promised they would come, he bade farewell to happy Fairy-Land, and flew sadly home.
«Jack,» said von Horn, sadly, «I am afraid there is a terrible and disappointing awakening for you.
BELL James Joseph ‘Jim’ Sadly passed away on 15th March 2019 aged 80 years.
YOUR article re George Stephenson High School in Killingworth sadly reinforced my opinion as to your priorities.
Freddy will be sadly missed by all his family and friends.
Cancer Research UK PS20 In loving memory of our dear dad and granda, John McLauchlan, who sadly passed away on April 10, 1994.
IN response to Mr Edward Hillier of Mostyn Estates regarding Llandudno and its defiance of Internet shopping, sadly this isn’t true in some businesses.
Sadly missed by all her grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, brothers Billy, Tommy and Brian.
MITROVIC Dusan Treasured memories of a dearly loved husband, dad and grandad, who fell asleep one year ago today, sadly missed by his family.
Babette Eleonore Allum (Drury) sadly died at home in Fuengirola.
We had enough industry once to give full employment, but sadly we sold them abroad.
SADLY the ongoing dispute between the Welsh Assembly Government and the NewLabour Government based at Westminster over laws to protect employees in Welsh hospitals and health care visiting staff yet again sadly shows politicians in a very poor light.
SIR — Now that the British Post Office has produced its calendar of stamps to be issued in 2005, sadly what do we in Wales find — that no commemorative issues are earmarked for either the centenary of city status for Cardiff or the 50th anniversary of Cardiff being the capital city of Wales.
There are over 400 photographs but, sadly, not more than a dozen of these stop your heart beat.
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