Sadly many people will believe things told to them via an email which they would find implausible face-to-face.
Source: tatoeba (2070)
Sadly
//ˈsædli//
Synonyms for "sadly" (99 found)
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Closest matches (20)
Strong matches (30)
Related words (49)
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Antonyms
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4 entriesderived
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
29 translations across 16 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- tristament adv (in a sad manner)
Esperanto
1 entries- malgaje adv (in a sad manner)
Finnish
1 entries- surullisesti adv (in a sad manner)
French
1 entries- tristement adv (in a sad manner)
Galician
1 entries- tristemente adv (in a sad manner)
German
2 entries- traurig adv (in a sad manner)
- traurigerweise adv (in a sad manner)
Hungarian
3 entries- bánatosan adv (in a sad manner)
- búsan adv (in a sad manner)
- szomorúan adv (in a sad manner)
Middle English
2 entries- febly adv (in a sad manner)
- sadly adv (in a sad manner)
Norman
1 entries- tristément adv (in a sad manner)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- bedrøvet adv (in a sad manner)
- sørgmodig adv (in a sad manner)
- trist adv (in a sad manner)
- vemodig adv (in a sad manner)
Polish
1 entries- smutno adv (in a sad manner)
Portuguese
1 entries- tristemente adv (in a sad manner)
Romanian
2 entries- cu tristețe adv (in a sad manner)
- trist adv (in a sad manner)
Russian
4 entries- гру́стно adv (in a sad manner)
- печа́льно adv (in a sad manner)
- тоскли́во adv (in a sad manner)
- уны́ло adv (in a sad manner)
Spanish
3 entries- con alma en pena adv (in a sad manner)
- luctuosamente adv (in a sad manner)
- tristemente adv (in a sad manner)
Turkish
1 entries- üzgünce adv (in a sad manner)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
"He used to love me," she answered sadly.
Source: tatoeba (28332)
Even the most graceful and imposing existing buildings may now be so sadly diminished as to seem slightly ridiculous beside the monster.
Source: tatoeba (36687)
He is sadly mistaken.
Source: tatoeba (292525)
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