sorry

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sorry Definition

• (a) having 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"
• (s) keenly sorry or regretful; "felt bad about letting the team down"; "was sorry that she had treated him so badly"; "felt bad about breaking the vase"
• (s) feeling or expressing sorrow or pity; "a pitying observer threw his coat around her shoulders"; "let him perish without a pitying thought of ours wasted upon him"- Thomas De Quincey
• (s) feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
• (s) bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
• (s) depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams
• (s) 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"

sorry Synonyms

• bad
• contrite
• deplorable
• dingy
• dismal
• distressing
• drab
• drear
• dreary
• gloomy
• good-for-naught
• good-for-nothing
• lamentable
• meritless
• no-account
• no-count
• no-good
• pitiful
• pitying
• regretful
• remorseful
• rueful
• ruthful
• sad
• sorry
• sorry for(p)