sorry
1. feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone (Freq. 1)
- felt regretful over his vanished youth
- regretful over mistakes she had made
- he felt bad about breaking the vase
• Syn:
regretful, bad
• Ant:
unregretful (for: regretful)
• See Also:
penitent, repentant
2. bad;
unfortunate (Freq. 1)
- 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
• Similar to:
bad
• Derivationally related forms:
sorriness, sadness (for: sad), lament (for: lamentable)
3. 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, drab, drear, dreary
• Similar to:
depressing, cheerless, uncheerful
• Derivationally related forms:
dreariness (for: dreary)
4. 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
• Similar to:
worthless
• Derivationally related forms:
sorriness, good-for-naught (for: good-for-naught), good-for-nothing (for: good-for-nothing)
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