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Defenition of the word sorry

    • Defenition of the word sorry

      • An interjection expressing regret, remorse, or sorrow.
      • Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.
      • 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"
      • feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
      • very bad; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
      • 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
      • 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"
      • 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
      • 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"
      • bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
      • causing dejection
      • bad; unfortunate
      • feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
      • without merit

    Synonyms for the word sorry

      • apologetic
      • bad
      • contrite
      • deplorable
      • dingy
      • dismal
      • distressing
      • drab
      • drear
      • dreary
      • forlorn
      • gloomy
      • good-for-naught
      • good-for-nothing
      • lamentable
      • meritless
      • miserable
      • no-account
      • no-count
      • no-good
      • pathetic
      • pitiable
      • pitiful
      • pitying
      • poor
      • regretful
      • remorseful
      • repentant
      • rueful
      • sad
      • sorry for
      • unhappy
      • wretched

    Similar words in the sorry

      • bad
      • cheerless
      • compassionate
      • penitent
      • repentant
      • sad
      • sorry
      • uncheerful
      • unhappy
      • worthless

    Antonyms for the word sorry

      • unregretful
      • unregretting

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