alas

intj

1. Used to express sorrow, regret, compassion, grief, resignation, or disappointment.

   “I wanted to catch the last bus home, but alas, I was ten minutes late and had to take a taxi instead.”

   “Helas I lamente the dull abuſyd brayne The enfatuate fantaſies the wytles wylfulnes Of on and hothyr at me that haue dyſdayne”

   “Alas poore Yorick, I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite Ieſt; of moſt excellent fancy, he hath borne me on his backe a thouſand times: And how abhorred my Imagination is, my gorge riſes at it.”

   “Standing afarre off for the feare of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great citie Babylon, that mighty citie: for in one houre is thy iudgement come.”

   “The thorough and shameless commercialism of Sex has alas! been reserved for what is called "Christian civilization," and with it (perhaps as a necessary consequence) Prostitution and Syphilis have grown into appalling evils, accompanied by a gigantic degradation of social standards, and upgrowth of petty Philistinism and niaiserie.”

noun

1. A type of geological depression which occurs in Yakutia, formed by the subsidence of permafrost.

   “Alternative forms: alass, alaas”