About The Word Sorry
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What's The Definition Of Sorry?
[adj] 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
[adj] 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 [adj] bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" [adj] 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" [adj] 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" [adj] feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses [adj] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Sorry: bad | cheerless | compassionate | contrite | deplorable | dingy | dismal | distressing | drab | drear | dreary | gloomy | good-for-naught | good-for-nothing | lamentable | meritless | no-account | no-count | no-good | penitent | pitiful | pitying | regretful | remorseful | repentant | rueful | ruthful | sad | sorry for(p) | uncheerful | unhappy | worthless Related Terms | Find terms related to Sorry: See Also | Sorry In Webster's Dictionary \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.
Ye were made sorry after a godly manner. --2 Cor.
vii. 9.
I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's
pleasure. --Shak.
She entered, were he lief or sorry. --Spenser.
2. Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful. --Spenser.
All full of chirking was this sorry place.
--Chaucer.
3. Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse. ``With sorry
grace.'' --Chaucer.
Cheeks of sorry grain will serve. --Milton.
Good fruit will sometimes grow on a sorry tree.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Syn: Hurt; afflicted; mortified; vexed; chagrined;
melancholy; dismal; poor; mean; pitiful.
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