sadly
Pronunciation
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.005
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈsadli/
sadly (comparative sadlier, superlative sadliest)
- In a sad manner; sorrowfully.
- “Only when we climb up can we see it,” he said sadly.
- Unfortunately, sad to say.
- If you think you’re getting out of this place alive, you are sadly mistaken, my friend.
- Sadly, the two were never to meet again.
- (dated) Very much (of a desire etc.); dearly; urgently.
- (obsolete) Deeply, completely.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:8.4?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter iiij], in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:
- By my feythe sayd syre launcelot in that pauelione wil I lodge alle this nyghte / and soo there he alyghte doune and tayed his hors to the pauelione / and there he vnarmed hym / and there he fond a bedde / and layd hym theryn / and felle on slepe sadly
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:8.4?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter iiij], in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:
- (in a sad manner) sorrowfully, ruefully, mournfully, regretfully (various terms for particular shades of sadness)
- (unfortunately) unfortunately, sad to say, regrettably, regretfully, alas
- French: malheureusement
- German: traurig, traurigerweise
- Portuguese: tristemente
- Russian: гру́стно
- Spanish: tristemente, con alma en pena, luctuosamente
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.005