Definition
Meaning of 'sorry'
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. [ a.]- Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.
- Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse.
Meaning of 'sorry' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. sorry [ a]
[ a]Meaning (1):
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
- 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]
[ s]Meaning (2):
- causing dejection
- 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):
- without merit; of little or no value or use
- 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
Meaning (4):
- bad; unfortunate
- 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
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