1 unfortunately:
Sadly, after eight years of marriage they had grown apart.
2 in a sad way:
She shook her head sadly.
3 very much and in a way that makes you sad:
She will be sadly missed. * They had hoped to win and were sadly disappointed. * If you think I'm going to help you again, you're sadly (= completely) mistaken. * His work has been sadly neglected.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sadly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is sadly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, sadly is tagged as adverb.
Does sadly appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — sadly appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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