sorry
Adjective
- Feeling regret, penitence, or sympathy; also, wretched or pitiable.
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
Adjective Satellite
- bad; unfortunate
- "a sorry state of affairs"
- without merit
- "a sorry horse"
- "a sorry excuse"
- causing dejection
Adj
- Regretful or apologetic for one's actions.
- Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
- Poor, pitifully sad or regrettable.
- Pathetic; contemptibly inadequate.
Intj
- Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.
- Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.
- Used to correct oneself in speech.
- Said as a request to pass somebody.
Noun
- The act of saying sorry; an apology.
Verb
- To feel sorry (for someone).
Examples
- Bob is a sorry excuse for a football player.
- He felt truly SORRY for the opponent who kept drawing nothing but ’I’s and ’U’s.
- I am sorry I stepped on your toes. It was an accident.
- I feel sorry for you, about your exam results.
- Sorry about yesterday. — No worries.
- Sorry I’m so late.
- Sorry! Coming through!
- Sorry! I didn't see that you were on the phone.
- Sorry? What was that? The phone cut out.
- The President was sorry to hear that the Ambassador was leaving.
- The storm left his garden in a sorry state.
- There are four– sorry, five branches of the store locally.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English sory, from Old English sāriġ (“feeling or expressing grief, sorry, grieved, sorrowful, sad, mournful, bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *sairag, from Proto-Germanic *sairagaz (“sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂yro (“hard, rough, painful”). Cognate with Scots sairie (“sad, grieved”), Saterland Frisian seerich (“sore, inflamed”), West Frisian searich (“sad, sorry”), Low German serig (“sick, scabby”), German dialectal sehrig (“sore, sad, painful”), Swedish sårig. Despite the similarity in form and meaning, not related to sorrow. Equivalent to sore + -y.
Synonyms
bad, blue, dark, deplorable, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, distressing, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, grim, lamentable, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, pitiful, regretful, sad, I beg your pardon?, I'm sorry?, apologetic, come again, compunctious, contrite, excuse me, excuse me?, heavy-hearted, melancholy, mournful, penitent, remorseful, repentant, say again, soz
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 8
sorry: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsorry: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sorry: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary