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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sadly, unhappilyadverb

    in an unfortunate way

    "sadly he died before he could see his grandchild"

  2. sadlyadverb

    with sadness; in a sad manner

    "`She died last night,' he said sadly"

  3. deplorably, lamentably, sadly, woefullyadverb

    in an unfortunate or deplorable manner

    "he was sadly neglected"; "it was woefully inadequate"

Wiktionary

  1. sadlyadverb

    In a sad manner; sorrowfully.

  2. sadlyadverb

    Unfortunately, sad to say.

  3. sadlyadverb

    Deeply, completely.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sadlyadverb

    Etymology: from sad.

    My father is gone wild into his grave;
    For in his tomb lie my affections;
    And with his spirit sadly I survive,
    To mock the expectations of the world. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.

    He griev’d, he wept, the sight an image brought
    Of his own filial love; a sadly pleasing thought. Dryden.

    He sadly suffers in their grief,
    Out-weeps an hermit, and out-prays a saint. Dryden.

    Common dangers past, a sadly pleasing theme. Dryden.

    We may at present easily see, and one day sadly feel. South.

Wikipedia

  1. Sadly

    Sadness is an emotional pain associated with, or characterized by, feelings of disadvantage, loss, despair, grief, helplessness, disappointment and sorrow. An individual experiencing sadness may become quiet or lethargic, and withdraw themselves from others. An example of severe sadness is depression, a mood which can be brought on by major depressive disorder or persistent depressive disorder. Crying can be an indication of sadness.Sadness is one of the six basic emotions described by Paul Ekman, along with happiness, anger, surprise, fear, and disgust.: 271–4 

ChatGPT

  1. sadly

    Sadly is an adverb that describes feeling or expressing grief, disappointment, or sorrow. It's often used to emphasize a regrettable or unfortunate reality or action.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sadlyadverb

    wearily; heavily; firmly

  2. Sadlyadverb

    seriously; soberly; gravely

  3. Sadlyadverb

    grievously; deeply; sorrowfully; miserably

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'sadly' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4628

  2. Adverbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'sadly' in Adverbs Frequency: #299

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sadly in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sadly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of sadly in a Sentence

  1. Christian Stefansen:

    We're hoping for a bit of creativity to flourish around this, there's no shortage of communicable diseases, sadly.

  2. Lawrence Jones:

    I was never a fan of CPAC being in the swamp. I thought that was a dumb move, i think we're going to see this become a recurring theme. This is one of the benefits of COVID, sadly to say, is that they realize, OK, we're not going to give our money to these liberal states, swampy cities that have all these regulations. Let's take it to the heartland.

  3. Brian Benczkowski:

    By defrauding the plan and treating it like their own personal ATM machine, sadly, the defendants placed the plan's tax-exempt status at risk.

  4. Bill Gray:

    If it were observable -- which, sadly, it won't be -- you would see a big flash, and dust and disintegrated rocket bits and pebbles and boulders thrown out, some of it for hundreds of kilometers.

  5. Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association:

    Sadly, the moratorium has come without a new offer on the table having been communicated to us.

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