sadly
/ˈsadli
/adverb
1In a sad manner: he smiled sadly...
- Near the end of the meal I looked up at my two brilliant companions and smiled sadly and shyly.
- They started dancing, and I smiled sadly, wishing I had a relationship even half as wonderful as theirs.
- I look up at him and he's smiling so sadly that tears cloud my eyes before I can even look down.
2 [sentence adverb] It is a sad or regrettable fact that; unfortunately: sadly, the forests of Sulawesi are now under threat...
- I myself have long hoped to be a minion to Cruella Deville, but sadly my youthful dreams have been to no avail.
- I pity their unhappy lives, but sadly there isn't a terrible great deal I can do to get them out and away from it.
- And sadly, it's not terribly different from what is actually being done in some churches.
2.1 [as submodifier] To a regrettable extent; regrettably: his schemes went sadly awry...
- I am growing sadly accustomed to his disregard for the views of the people of the town.
- They think of Hughes as a man who played for the shirt - a trait sadly lacking nowadays.
- Instead, it's a sadly bloated and floundering example of an experiment gone awry.
Rhymes
- Nasorean
- nasospinale
- nasotracheal
- nasoturbinal
- Nasrani
- Nasrany
- Nassa
- Nassanoff gland
- Nassanoff pheromone
- Nassanoff's gland
- Nassau
- Nassau County
- Nassau grouper
- Nassauvian
- Nassavian
- nassella
- Nasser, Gamal Abdel
- Nasserism
- Nasserist
- Nasserite
- Nasser, Lake
- nassi goreng
- Nass–Gitksan
- Nass–Gitksian
- nastaliq