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sorry
[ sor-ee, sawr-ee ]
adjective
- feeling regret, compunction, sympathy, pity, etc.:
to be sorry to leave one's friends; to be sorry for a remark; to be sorry for someone in trouble.
Synonyms: pitying, sympathetic, regretful
Antonyms: happy
- regrettable or deplorable; unfortunate; tragic:
a sorry situation; to come to a sorry end.
- sorrowful, grieved, or sad:
Was she sorry when her brother died?
- associated with sorrow; suggestive of grief or suffering; melancholy; dismal.
- wretched, poor, useless, or pitiful:
a sorry horse.
Synonyms: shabby, worthless, paltry, contemptible, abject
interjection
- (used as a conventional apology or expression of regret):
Sorry, you're misinformed. Did I bump you? Sorry.
sorry
/ ˈsɒrɪ /
adjective
- usually postpositiveoften foll byfor feeling or expressing pity, sympathy, remorse, grief, or regret
I feel sorry for him
- pitiful, wretched, or deplorable
a sorry sight
- poor; paltry
a sorry excuse
- affected by sorrow; sad
- causing sorrow or sadness
interjection
- an exclamation expressing apology, used esp at the time of the misdemeanour, offence, etc
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Derived Forms
- ˈsorrily, adverb
- ˈsorriness, noun
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Other Words From
- sorri·ly adverb
- sorri·ness noun
- un·sorry adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sorry1
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Idioms and Phrases
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Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
Its biggest asset, of course, is the steely Atwell, who never asks you to feel sorry for Carter despite all the sexism around her.
So she lies to the knight, telling him Madalena is sorry and wants him back.
I am so sorry that your parents did this to you, developing their own discriminatory take on your existence.
“Sorry I can't give you more, but at this time our office has no comment,” his spokesman, Sergio Gor, said.
“I feel sorry for what she did to Russ and his daughter,” Gill said.
Bernard was uncomfortable enough not to care to be mocked; but he felt even more sorry that Gordon should be.
"I will," gruffly replied the man, with a look which showed that he was sorry to be forced to choose the second alternative.
He felt very sorry for the Temecula people, the sheriff did; but he had to obey the law himself.
"I am sorry," she replied instead, not saying a word about the poor little toes which the pretty pink lady had crushed.
Meanwhile, as you may well believe, he began to feel very sorry that he had said anything about the verses.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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