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List of meaning for sorry

remorseful; repentant

regretful, sorry, bad(adj)

feeling or expressing 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"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase"

deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry(adj)

bad; unfortunate

"my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"

good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry(adj)

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"

blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary(adj)

causing dejection

"a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

arousing or deserving of one's loathing and disgust

one more sorry stunt like that and you'll be fired

causing unhappiness

we have sorry news to report tonight

deserving pitying scorn (as for inadequacy)

the ragtag circus was a sorry spectacle indeed

feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has done

she's genuinely sorry for hurting his feelings

feeling unhappiness

was sorry to see the family farm being sold

expressing or suggesting mourning

those sorry rituals that we go through when somebody dies are not for the dead but for the living

deserving of one's pity

some sorry wretch had the task of putting all of those files back in order

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