'Sorry' definitions:
Definition of 'sorry'
From: WordNet
adjective
Feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase" [syn: regretful, sorry, bad] [ant: unregretful, unregretting]
adjective
Bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" [syn: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry]
adjective
Without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no- count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk" [syn: good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry]
adjective
Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary]
Definition of 'Sorry'
From: GCIDE
- Sorry \Sor"ry\, a. [Compar. Sorrier; superl. Sorriest.] [OE. sory, sary, AS. s[=a]rig, fr. s[=a]r, n., sore. See Sore, n. & a. The original sense was, painful; hence, miserable, sad.]
- 1. Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil; feeling regret; -- now generally used to express light grief or affliction, but formerly often used to express deeper feeling. "I am sorry for my sins." --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]
- Ye were made sorry after a godly manner. --2 Cor. vii. 9. [1913 Webster]
- I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's pleasure. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- She entered, were he lief or sorry. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- All full of chirking was this sorry place. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse. "With sorry grace." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Cheeks of sorry grain will serve. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Good fruit will sometimes grow on a sorry tree. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Hurt; afflicted; mortified; vexed; chagrined; melancholy; dismal; poor; mean; pitiful. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sorry'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abject,
- apologetic,
- ashamed,
- bad,
- base,
- base-minded,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- beneath one,
- cheap,
- cheerless,
- cheesy,
- common,
- compunctious,
- conscience-smitten,
- conscience-stricken,
- contemptible,
- contrite,
- crummy,
- debasing,
- degrading,
- demeaning,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- despicable,
- discontented,
- disgraceful,
- dismal,
- full of remorse,
- gaudy,
- gimcracky,
- grim,
- gutter,
- heavyhearted,
- humiliating,
- humiliative,
- humorless,
- ignoble,
- ill-starred,
- in bad humor,
- inadequate,
- infestive,
- infra dig,
- infra indignitatem,
- joyless,
- low,
- low-minded,
- mean,
- melancholy,
- meretricious,
- mirthless,
- miserable,
- opprobrious,
- out of humor,
- out of sorts,
- outrageous,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- penitent,
- penitential,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- pleasureless,
- poor,
- regretful,
- remorseful,
- repentant,
- repining,
- rubbishy,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddened,
- scandalous,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- self-accusing,
- self-condemning,
- self-convicting,
- self-debasing,
- self-flagellating,
- self-humiliating,
- self-punishing,
- self-reproaching,
- shabby,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shameful,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sordid,
- sorrowful,
- sorryish,
- star-crossed,
- stark,
- too bad,
- trashy,
- trifling,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- unbecoming,
- uncheerful,
- uncheery,
- unhappy,
- unhappy about,
- unjoyful,
- unmirthful,
- unsmiling,
- unworthy of one,
- valueless,
- vile,
- wistful,
- worthless,
- wretched