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sorry

adjective

1 sorry

Feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone.

synonyms: bad, regretful.

Roget 828: in pain, in a state of pain, full of pain etc. n.; suffering etc. v.; pained, afflicted, worried, displeased etc. ... show more

Roget 876: ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes etc. (unimportant) 643; ... show more

Polish: przebłagalny

2 sorry

Bad; unfortunate:
— A sorry state of affairs.

synonyms: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad.

Roget 643: unimportant; of little account, of small account, of no account, of little importance, of no importance etc. 642; immaterial; unessential, nonessential; indifferent.    subordinate etc. ... show more

3 sorry

Without merit; of little or no value or use:
— A sorry horse.
— A sorry excuse.

synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good.

4 sorry

Causing dejection.

synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim.

Polish: mroczny


Moby thesaurus: abject, apologetic, ashamed, bad, base, base-minded, beggarly, beneath contempt, beneath one, cheap, cheerless, cheesy, common, compunctious, conscience-smitten, conscience-stricken, contemptible, contrite, crummy, debasing ... show more.

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