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English adjective: sorry | |||
| 1. | sorry feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone | ||
| Samples | Felt regretful over his vanished youth. Regretful over mistakes she had made. He felt bad about breaking the vase. | ||
| Synonyms | bad, regretful | ||
| See also | penitent, repentant | ||
| Antonyms | unregretful, unregretting | ||
| 2. | sorry bad; unfortunate | ||
| Samples | My finances were in a deplorable state. A lamentable decision. Her clothes were in sad shape. A sorry state of affairs. | ||
| Synonyms | deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad | ||
| Similar | bad | ||
| Antonyms | good | ||
| 3. | sorry without merit | ||
| Samples | A sorry horse. A sorry excuse. A lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick. The car was a no-good piece of junk. | ||
| Synonyms | good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good | ||
| Similar | worthless | ||
| Antonyms | valuable | ||
| 4. | sorry causing dejection | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim | ||
| Similar | cheerless, depressing, uncheerful | ||
| Antonyms | cheerful | ||
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