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Meaning of 'sorry' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Sorry [ a.]
- 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.
- Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.
- Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse.

Meaning of 'sorry' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . sorry [ a]
Meaning (1):
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
Example in sentence:
  • felt regretful over his vanished youth;
  • he felt bad about breaking the vase;
  • regretful over mistakes she had made
2 . sorry [ s]
Meaning (2):
- causing dejection
Example in sentence:
  • a blue day;
  • a dark gloomy day;
  • a disconsolate winter landscape;
  • a week of rainy depressing weather;
  • grim rainy weather;
  • the dark days of the war;
  • the first dismal dispiriting days of November
Meaning (3):
- bad; unfortunate
Example in sentence:
  • a lamentable decision;
  • a sorry state of affairs;
  • her clothes were in sad shape;
  • my finances were in a deplorable state
Meaning (4):
- without merit; of little or no value or use
Example in sentence:
  • a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick;
  • a sorry excuse;
  • a sorry horse;
  • the car was a no-good piece of junk

Nearby Words:

sora sorance sorb sorbate sorbefacient sorbent sorbet sorbic sorbile sorbin

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