'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]

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