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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Feeling or expressing sympathy, pity, or regret: I'm sorry I'm late.
  • adj. Worthless or inferior; paltry: a sorry excuse.
  • adj. Causing sorrow, grief, or misfortune; grievous: a sorry development.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Regretful for an action; grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
  • adj. Poor, sad or regrettable.
  • interjection. Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.
  • interjection. Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.
  • n. The act of saying sorry; an apology.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. 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.
  • adj. Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.
  • adj. Poor; mean; worthless.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Feeling sorrow; grieved; sorrowful; unhappy; sad; pained; especially, feeling repentance or regret: noting either deep or slight, prolonged or transient, emotion.
  • Causing sorrow; painful; grievous; mournful.
  • Associated with sorrow; suggestive of grief or suffering; melancholy; dismal.
  • Vile; wretched; worthless; mean; paltry; poor.
  • Synonyms Vexed, chagrined.
  • Pitiful, shabby.
  • To sorrow; grieve.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. causing dejection
  • adj. feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
  • adj. bad; unfortunate
  • adj. without merit
  • Equivalent
    depressing    cheerless    uncheerful    bad    worthless   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    sorriest    sorrier   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    melancholy    afflicted    mortified    pitiful    hurt    chagrined    poor    mean    vexed    dismal   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ari    Atari    Bari    Bihari    Cagliari    Ferrari    Harare    Lauri    Laurie    Lipari   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sad    unhappy    dear    glad    funny    sick    lucky    depress    ashamed    proud