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sorry
adj. regretful, remorseful, distressed, apologetic; causing sorrow, causing grief; miserable, wretched; pitiful, contemptible


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Sorry can mean:"Sorrow" (see Contrition), an expression of contrition"Sorrow" (see Suffering), an expression of sympathy for another's sufferingSorry! (game), a board game.Sorry (video game), the board game remade electronically.Sorry! (TV series), a 1980s British sitcom.Sorry (ごめん), aka Gomen, a 2002 Japanese Film.Sorry (Status Quo song), a song from Thirsty WorkSorry (Madonna song), the second single from Confessions on a Dance FloorSorry (Bic Runga song), the sixth single from DriveSorry (Madness song), 2007 single by MadnessSorry 2004, a single from Ruben StuddardNational Sorry Day an annual Australian event, an unofficial holiday, dedicated to awareness of recent aboriginal historySorry (the band), an indie rock band from SeattleThe Indian garment is correctly spelled sari.
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sorry
Adjective
1. 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"
(synonym) bad
(similar) unhappy
2. 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
(synonym) pitying, sorry for(p)
(similar) compassionate
3. 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"
(synonym) regretful
4. feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
(synonym) contrite, remorseful, rueful, ruthful
(similar) penitent, repentant
5. bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
(synonym) deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad
(similar) bad
6. 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
(synonym) dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy
(similar) cheerless, uncheerful
7. 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"
(synonym) good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good
(similar) worthless


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sorry
interj. I am sorry

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Sorry
(a.)
Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse.
  
 
(a.)
Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.
  
 
(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.
  

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