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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone;
- Example: "felt regretful over his vanished youth"
- Example: "regretful over mistakes she had made"
- Example: "he felt bad about breaking the vase"
[syn: regretful, sorry, bad]

2. bad; unfortunate;
- Example: "my finances were in a deplorable state"
- Example: "a lamentable decision"
- Example: "her clothes were in sad shape"
- Example: "a sorry state of affairs"
[syn: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry]

3. without merit;
- Example: "a sorry horse"
- Example: "a sorry excuse"
- Example: "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"
- Example: "the car was a no-good piece of junk"
[syn: good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry]

4. causing dejection;
- Example: "a blue day"
- Example: "the dark days of the war"
- Example: "a week of rainy depressing weather"
- Example: "a disconsolate winter landscape"
- Example: "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"
- Example: "a dark gloomy day"
- Example: "grim rainy weather"
[syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sorry \Sor"ry\, a. [Compar. Sorrier; superl. Sorriest.] [OE.
   sory, sary, AS. s[=a]rig, fr. s[=a]r, n., sore. See Sore,
   n. & a. The original sense was, painful; hence, miserable,
   sad.]
   1. 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. "I am sorry for my sins." --Piers Plowman.
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            Ye were made sorry after a godly manner. --2 Cor.
                                                  vii. 9.
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            I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's
            pleasure.                             --Shak.
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            She entered, were he lief or sorry.   --Spenser.
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   2. Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful. --Spenser.
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            All full of chirking was this sorry place.
                                                  --Chaucer.
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   3. Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse. "With sorry
      grace." --Chaucer.
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            Cheeks of sorry grain will serve.     --Milton.
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            Good fruit will sometimes grow on a sorry tree.
                                                  --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   Syn: Hurt; afflicted; mortified; vexed; chagrined;
        melancholy; dismal; poor; mean; pitiful.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sorry
    adj 1: 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" [syn: regretful,
           sorry, bad] [ant: unregretful, unregretting]
    2: bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state";
       "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a
       sorry state of affairs" [syn: deplorable, distressing,
       lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry]
    3: 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" [syn: good-for-nothing, good-for-naught,
       meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry]
    4: 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" [syn: blue,
       dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim,
       sorry, drab, drear, dreary]